Skrevet af JANE JACOBS
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. 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. She writes about
the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers
of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate,
bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's
monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the
vitality of all cities.
