Death and Life of Great American Cities
Author: Jane Jacobs
Thirty years after its publication, , 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….Read More
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