An analysis of Jane Jacobs's The death and life of great American cities
Fuller, Martin2017
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Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities', Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion, that urban planners ruin great cities, because they don't understand that it is a city's social interaction that makes it great.
Main title:
An analysis of Jane Jacobs's The death and life of great American cities / Martin Fuller with Ryan Moore.
Author:
Fuller, Martin, authorMoore, Ryan, author
Imprint:
London : Routledge, [2017]©2017
Collation:
88 pages ; 20 cm.
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Variant title:
Cover title: Jane Jacobs's The death and life of great American cities
Notes:
"A Macat analysis"--Front cover.Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781912128594 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
307.121609
Language:
English
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BRN:
1888982
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