The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Name: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Author: Jane Jacobs

by Jane Jacobs

Influential critique of modern urban planning and analysis of vibrant city life

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Jane Jacobs

American-Canadian urban activist and writer whose The Death and Life of Great American Cities revolutionized urban planning by arguing for the vitality of mixed-use, pedestrian-scale neighborhoods against the orthodoxies of high modernist planning. Her battle to save Greenwich Village from Robert Moses became a defining moment in American urbanism.

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