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	Jane Jacobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States.
		Jacobs was an advocate of a Province of Toronto to separate the city proper from Ontario.
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) New York: Random House.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Jacobs (2753 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, is arguably the most influential book written on urban planning in the 20th century.
		Reserving her most vitriolic criticism for the "rationalist" planners (specifically Robert Moses) of the 1950s and 1960s, she argues that modernist urban planning rejects the city, because it rejects human beings living in a community characterized by layered complexity and seeming chaos.
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities made the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 50 Best Books of the Twentieth Century and was #39 on National Review's list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities (432 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library): Books: Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Death and Life is, first of all, a work of observation.
		She shows us parts of the city that are alive -- the streets, she says, are the city that we see, and it is the streets and sidewalks that carry the most weight -- and find the patterns that help us not merely see but understand.
		In this day when "inner city" is a synonym for poverty and hopelessness, it is important to be reminded that cities are literally the centers of civilization, of business, of culture.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Death-American-Cities-Modern-Library/dp/0679600477 (609 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cities
		So in effect, the whole establishment concerned with the physical form of cities (including bankers, developers, and politicians who had assimilated the planning and architectural visions and theories) acted as gatekeepers protecting forms and visions inimical to city life.
		That is because anticity projects, especially massive public housing projects, tend to cause their city surroundings to deteriorate, so that as time passes, less and less healthy adjoining city is available to tie into.
		In city ecosystems, kinds of work are fundamental treasures; furthermore, forms of work not only reproduce themselves in newly created proliferating organizations, they also hybridize, and even mutate into unprecedented kinds of work.
	www.walksf.org /essays/janejacobs.html (1823 words)

	'Cities' author Jane Jacobs dies at 89 - Boston.com
		City planners in New York and Toronto were among those who cited its importance and her book became an essential text for "New Urban" communities such as
		Not only did it attack canonical beliefs in city planning, it attacked such canonical figures as Moses, for his dogmatic attachment to the automobile, and historian Lewis Mumford, author of "The Culture of Cities," for his misguided attachment to the anti-city philosophy.
		In later works, she examined the ideas outlined in "Death and Life" from other perspectives: "Cities and the Wealth of Nations," the economy; "Systems of Survival," morals; "The Nature of Economies," science and ecology.
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2006/04/25/cities_author_jane_jacobs_dies_at_89 (889 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Jane Jacobs still helping to shape cities - November 23, 2000
		When "Death and Life" was published, in 1961, she was opposing "slum" clearance, highway construction and other principles of the time.
		There are stained glass windows, African sculpture, a golf putter, an oil portrait of her great aunt, some old bones dug up from a beach, a quintet of swivel chairs and a book shelf that runs from one end of the house to the other.
		Cities were her passion, first downtown Scranton, with its restaurants and courthouse square, and then New York, where she moved as a teen-ager and which she adored at first sight.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/11/23/jane.jacobs.ap (2013 words)

	Livable Streets (For People, Not Cars) (Gotham Gazette. February, 2006)
		City planning is a discipline concerned with the present and future use of land and the quality of urban life.
		Cities like Philadelphia and Chicago are creating safer streets for people of all ages and abilities, reducing pollution and health risks, and making both business districts and busy neighborhoods easier places to walk to, and walk around.
		The dialogue could be broadened to include the city’s health officials, who are grappling with epidemics of asthma, obesity and diabetes that are related in one way or another to over-reliance on the auto.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/landuse/20060221/12/1766 (1456 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cities
		He was uninterested in such problems as the way great cities police themselves, or exchange ideas, or operate politically, or invent new economic arrangements, and he was oblivious to devising ways to strengthen these functions because, after all, he was not designing for this kind of life in any case.
		At the time it appeared that the American population was both aging and leveling off in numbers, and the problem appeared to be not one of accommodating a rapidly growing population, but simply of redistributing a static population.
		The Garden City planners and their ever increasing following among housing reformers, students and architects were indefatigably popularizing the ideas of the super-block, the project neighborhood, the unchangeable plan, and grass, grass, grass; what is more they were successfully establishing such attributes as the hallmarks of humane, socially responsible, functional, high-minded planning.
	architecture.arizona.edu /courses/arc103/trad103/readings/jacobs_intro.html (7194 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cities (quotations) - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities (quotations)
		Cities: Virtually all of urban Detroit is weak on…
		Virtually all of urban Detroit is weak on vitality and diversity...It is ring superimposed upon ring of failed belts.
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	Commentary Magazine - The Death & Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
		...The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a thoughtful and imaginative tract on behalf of the traditional city, an analysis of the principles that make it desirable, an attack on the city planner-whom Mrs...
		...Her analysis of the mechanics of street life, and of the ways in which people use buildings, streets, and vacant spaces in such areas is eye-opening...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V33I2P84-1.htm (3662 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Death and Life of Great American Cities: Books: Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.
		Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture.
		Even at her elder age, Jacobs is still very involved in urban issues in the City of Toronto where she now resides, but even half way around the world people have been affected by her stance on issues surrounding cities, as many municipal politicians use The Death and Life...
	www.amazon.ca /Death-Life-Great-American-Cities/dp/067974195X (1079 words)

	The Convention Follies, Part 5: A Conversation with Jane Jacobs
		Essentially, cities are economic units, and from those economic circumstances you get various social things, but you have started that train of thought altogether wrong by saying the reason for the cities, if I understood you, is for people to get together.
		One trouble with having great massive things, like a convention center, smack in the middle where small things were flourishing, is that it turns an area that had diversity and variety and opportunity of many kinds in it—small kinds, but many kinds—into something resembling a one-crop place.
		HB: And it’s something that a great many cities have been convinced recently that they should be using as a strategy, so we’re looking at an incredible number of competitors who are expanding or upgrading their facilities at the very same time.
	www.gse.buffalo.edu /fas/bromley/ccs/part5.htm (4818 words)

	Drwn News: The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (2 of 2)
		Drwn News: The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (2 of 2)
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (2 of 2)
		Jacobs is a critic of bad city rehab, but also of the very premise of suburbs and their design.
	www.drownout.com /blog/archives/000257.html (1076 words)

	The Modern Library \| The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
		She was becoming increasingly skeptical of conventional planning beliefs as she noticed that the city rebuilding projects she was assigned to write about seemed neither safe, interesting, alive, nor good economics for cities once the projects were built and in operation.
		She was a leader in the successful campaign to block construction of a major expressway on the grounds that it would do more harm than good, and helped prevent the demolition of an entire neighborhood downtown.
		Her writings include The Economy of Cities (1969); The Question of Separatism (1980), a consideration of the issue of sovereignty for Quebec; Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984), a major study of the importance of cities and their regions in the global economy; and her most recent book, Systems of Survival (1993).
	www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679600473 (412 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cit… by Jane Jacobs \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Death and Life of Great American Cit… by Jane Jacobs
		Her fundamental concept, difficult to grasp with traditional rigid methods of planning and analysis, is that cities thrive on diversity of people, of buildings, of activities...
		It's a mark of her careful approach to analyzing the life of cities that she doesn't get around to looking at that great bugaboo, the car, until her 18th chapter.
	www.librarything.com /card_card.php?book=65831 (948 words)

	Amazon.com: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series): Books: Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Burnham's contribution to planning was "City Monumental," where all of the grand buildings (libraries, government buildings, concert halls, landmarks) of a city could be clustered in one agglomeration separated from the dirty, bad city.
		I don't know much about the current workings of city planning, but if this book has been incorporated into the syllabi of city planning programs and the profession itself, though I see no immediately obvious evidence that it has, we would be much the better for it.
		At its core, "Death and Life.." is a book that challenges city planners to know the citizens of communities as individuals and allow the local needs and voices of communities to be at the heart of city planning.
	www.amazon.com /Great-American-Cities-Modern-Library/dp/0679600477 (2745 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs - 0375508732
		The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs - 0375508732
		Its author, herself a city dweller and an editor of Architectural Forum, is direct and practical in her approach.
		Conventional city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by too many people, by mixtures of commercial, industrial and residential uses, by old buildings and narrow streets and by small landholders who stand in the way of large-scale development.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0375508732 (430 words)

	The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		City lovers (or dwellers, or leaders, or builders) ignore her at their own peril.
		The book is written in simple enough language and concepts that you only have to live in a large city to understand what she is saying.
		Everything you are doing is great on March 19th four of my friends were arrested for being out two minutes past curfew, they were headed home.
	www.libertarianrock.com /commerce/death_and_life.html (1313 words)

	Author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" dies at 89
		Author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" dies at 89
		She and her husband, architect Robert Jacobs Jr., were unhappy their taxes were supporting the Vietnam War and they eventually made Canada their permanent home.
		Basing her findings on deep, eclectic reading and firsthand observation, Jacobs challenged assumptions she believed damaged modern cities - that neighbourhoods should be isolated from each other, that an empty street was safer than a crowded one, that the car represented progress over the pedestrian.
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	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Jane Jacobs
		Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the exploitative force he...
		The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics.
		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...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=14256 (593 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Death and Life of Great American Cities; by Jane Jacobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Strand Bookstore: Death and Life of Great American Cities; by Jane Jacobs
		Arguing that the "real vitality" of cities lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale, this work provides an essential and provocative framework for assessing how humans live `in the city'.
		A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the shortsightedness 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.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=067974195x (270 words)

	dsng.net - the daryl sng blog: The Death and Life of a Great American Thinker
		The Death and Life of a Great American Thinker
		Well, a lot of my modes of thinking about cities are influenced by Jacobs - things such as the joys of neighbourhoods, messiness, seeming inefficiencies such as small enterprises that are vital and crucial for economic growth, and more than just growth, life.
		Her effort to save Greenwich Village is well celebrated - the Village Voice, obviously, paid its tribute - but there's an entire body of work that she produced, well-written and fundamentally insightful, starting from The Death and Life of Great American Cities, that, thankfully, became highly influential.
	www.dsng.net /2006/04/death-and-life-of-great-american.html (387 words)

	Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities) dead. - Wired New York Forum
		She was the first person to succesfully highlight the profoundly anti city direction town planning had taken post war.
		The spectacular renaissance now occuring in cities around the world is in no small part a result of her ideas on urban neighbourhoods and how to positively tap the qualities inherent in every city influencing a new generation of planners and urban thinkers.
		Her seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was largely based on her observations in New York.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9165 (157 words)

	d a n i e l l y o n s - b o o k s
		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, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities.
		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."
	www.duke.edu /~del3/books.htm (834 words)

	The death and life of great Catholic colleges - Opinions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The death and life of great Catholic colleges
		This past Saturday, when so many across the country were remembering the work and spirit of Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, I found myself resting beneath a grove of budding trees on Upper Campus reflecting on the life and death of great Catholic colleges.
		Follow-up interviews revealed the importance of "reflective spaces on campus." The wall next to the bronze "Tree of Life" fountain, the Reservoir running path, and the "simple and reassuring" statue of the Blessed Mother on the Bapst Library lawn were often cited as "places where I pray."
	www.bcheights.com /news/2006/05/01/Opinions/The-Death.And.Life.Of.Great.Catholic.Colleges-1896942.shtml (754 words)

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