Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.
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 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.” 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, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities的创作者
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Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was a writer and activist who championed new approaches to urban planning for more than forty years. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, became perhaps the most influential American text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of urban planners and activists. Her efforts to stop the building of d...
Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was a writer and activist who championed new approaches to urban planning for more than forty years. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, became perhaps the most influential American text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of urban planners and activists. Her efforts to stop the building of downtown expressways and protect local neighborhoods invigorated community-based urban activism and helped end Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ reign of power in New York City.
Jason Epstein is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books. For many years he was editorial director of Random House. He is the author of Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future and Eating.
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1 Introduction 3
Pt. 1 The Peculiar Nature of Cities
2 The uses of sidewalks: safety 29
3 The uses of sidewalks: contact 55
4 The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children 74
5 The uses of neighborhood parks 89
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1 Introduction 3
Pt. 1 The Peculiar Nature of Cities
2 The uses of sidewalks: safety 29
3 The uses of sidewalks: contact 55
4 The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children 74
5 The uses of neighborhood parks 89
6 The uses of city neighborhoods 112
Pt. 2 The Conditions for City Diversity
7 The generators of diversity 143
8 The need for primary mixed uses 152
9 The need for small blocks 178
10 The need for aged buildings 187
11 The need for concentration 200
12 Some myths about diversity 222
Pt. 3 Forces of Decline and Regeneration
13 The self-destruction of diversity 241
14 The curse of border vacuums 257
15 Unslumming and slumming 270
16 Gradual money and cataclysmic money 291
Pt. 4 Different Tactics
17 Subsidizing dwellings 321
18 Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles 338
19 Visual order: its limitations and possibilities 372
20 Salvaging projects 392
21 Governing and planning districts 405
22 The kind of problem a city is 428
Index 449
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《美国大城市的死与生（the Death and Life of Great American Cities）》出版于1961年，从此后就变成建筑界、城市规划领域最著名的书之一。我的学生时代一直感到奇怪，怎么一本各个老师都会提起的书却从来没在图书馆里看到。原来上世纪八十年代，清华大学的汪坦教授曾主持翻译...
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0 有用 winnietheice 2012-08-21 11:54:42
所谓读到一半就读不下去，也许只是不愿意太纠结细节，而想要迈开脚步，去看vital streetlife.
0 有用 bunnie 2021-12-18 05:20:24
- 12.16 | somehow ties in with the progresses in various fields brought about by the advancement in computer science there has been improvement in the last sixty years but most cities are still fraugh... - 12.16 | somehow ties in with the progresses in various fields brought about by the advancement in computer science there has been improvement in the last sixty years but most cities are still fraught with previous and new problems and seem to be changing for the worse (展开)
0 有用 Cal 2021-12-25 08:36:41
the then heterodox sociological rebuke to academic urban planning has now became the new orthodoxy
1 有用 西瓜＞芝麻 2017-06-06 03:30:53
文笔不错哎
0 有用 Titan_Pascal 2021-02-04 22:02:11
看经典作品的一个坏处：由于里面的理念已经被七八手的知识贩子反复给你灌输很多遍了，当你再看到原创的时候，就觉得非常俗套了，事实上人家是最惊世骇俗的。