Jane Jacobs: Essays on Jane Jacobs
€27
Keyword: urban planning, anthology, Canadian urban theorist
Essays: Ola Andersson, Vania Ceccato, Peter Elmlund, Jill L. Grant, Tigran Haas, Ebba Högström, Peter L. Laurence, Michael W. Mehaffy, esper Meijling, Eva Minoura, Saskia Sassen, Per Svensson, Catharina Thörn
Editor: Jesper Meijling, Tigran Haas
Size: 160 x 228 mm
Pages: 300
Format: hardcover
Language: English
Illustration: 60
Book design: Patric Leo
Printing: TMG
Publisher: Stolpe
Pub Year: 2019
Weight: 752 gr
ISBN 13: 9789151944524
Description
Article no.: 9789198523690
Jacobs' book " The Death and Life of Great American Cities," published in 1961, ignited the critique of "rational" urban planning and its inability to design sustainable neighborhoods.
Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) is an icon in urban planning and became known worldwide for her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The book and her street-level activism in 1960s New York made Jacobs a central figure in urban planning issues, and her efforts have been constantly interpreted and debated.
In this anthology, theorists and writers address unique aspects of the urgent issues she raises - what is it that basically makes a society sustainable? Together, the participants draw a close enough comprehensive picture of Jacob's business from the 1930s to the 2000s and put her work in a contemporary context