Death and Life of Great American Cities
Death and Life of Great American Cities Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. It…
Specifikacia Death and Life of Great American Cities
Death and Life of Great American Cities
Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense. The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen.
In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. --The New York Times A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.
Matters of Life and Death
Matter of Life and Death
Life and Death of Krishnamurti
Matter of Death and Life
Facts of Life and Death
The Maths of Life and Death