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In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.
Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid 'scientific' plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground.
The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in.
'Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning... Jacobs has a powerful sense of narrative, a lively wit, a talent for surprise and the ability to touch the emotions as well as the mind' New York Times Book Review
Contents
1: Introduction
Part One: The Peculiar Nature of Cities
2: The uses of sidewalks: safety
3: The uses of sidewalks: contact
4: The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children
5: The uses of neighbourhood parks
6: The uses of city neighbourhoods
Part Two: The Conditions for City Diversity
7: The generators of diversity
8: The need for mixed primary uses
9: The need for small blocks
10: The need for aged buildings
11: The need for concentration
12: Some myths about diversity
Part Three: Forces of Decline and Regeneration
13: The self-destruction of diversity
14: The curse of border vacuums
15: Unslumming and slumming
16: Gradual money and cataclysmic money
Part Four: Different Tactics
17: Subsidizing dwellings
18: Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
19: Visual order: its limitations and possibilities
20: Salvaging projects
21: Governing and planning districts
22: The kind of problem a city is
