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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | HT 167 .J33 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5157787 |
HT 166 .U7125 2009 The urban and regional planning reader / | HT 167 .A83 1999 Growing greener : putting conservation into local plans and ordinances / | HT 167 .G36 1993 People, plans, and policies : essays on poverty, racism, and other national urban problems / | HT 167 .J33 2011 The death and life of great American cities / | HT 167 .L38 2011 Contemporary urban planning / | HT 167 .L38 2017 Contemporary urban planning / | HT 167 .L38 2017 Contemporary urban planning / |
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.
Includes index.
Part one: The peculiar nature of cities. The uses of sidewalks: safety -- The uses of sidewals: contact -- The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children -- The uses of neighborhood parks -- The uses of city neighborhoods -- Part two: The conditions for city diversity. The generators of diversity -- The need for primary mixed uses -- The need for small blocks -- The need for aged buildings -- The need for concentration -- Some myths about diversity -- Part three: Forces of decline and regeneration. The self-destruction of diversity -- The curse of border vacuums -- Unslumming and slumming -- Gradual money and cataclysmic money -- Part four: Different tactics. Subsidizing dwellings -- Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles -- Visual order: its limitations and possibilities -- Salvaging projects -- Governing and planning districts -- The kind of problem a city is.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. ... [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs's tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable. --- Book Description.
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