Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Published on 19. April 2016
128 pages
978-1-61219-535-3 (ISBN)
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"Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or final authority." -The New York Sun
Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning," Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instantly recognized as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1961. In the decades that followed, Jacobs remained a brilliant and revered commentator on architecture, urban life, and economics until her death in 2006. These interviews capture Jacobs at her very best and are an essential reminder of why Jacobs was-and remains-unrivaled in her analyses and her ability to cut through cant and received wisdom.
Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning," Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instantly recognized as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1961. In the decades that followed, Jacobs remained a brilliant and revered commentator on architecture, urban life, and economics until her death in 2006. These interviews capture Jacobs at her very best and are an essential reminder of why Jacobs was-and remains-unrivaled in her analyses and her ability to cut through cant and received wisdom.
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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 transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies, and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Disturber of the Peace: Jane Jacobs
- How Westway Will Destroy New York
- Godmother of the American City
- The Last Interview
- About the Authors
