The death and life of great American cities. by Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006

The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs ; with a new foreword by the author. by Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006

Jane Jacobs : urban visionary / Alice Sparberg Alexiou. by Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, 1951-

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Introducing architectural theory : debating a discipline / edited by Korydon Smith.

Table of Contents: “…Reflective Text: Jane Jacobs, Excerpts from The Death and Life of Great American Cities. First Published in 1961 --…”

Contemporary perspectives on Jane Jacobs : reassessing the impacts of an urban visionary / edited by Dirk Schubert ; Uwe Altrock [and fifteen others], contributors.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; About the Editor; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Part I Introduction; 1 50 Years: "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"; Part II Jane Jacobs: Roots, Basics and Impacts; 2 Central Elements of Jane Jacobs's Philosophy; 3 Jane Jacobs and the Self-Organizing City; 4 Jane Jacobs and the Paradigm Shift: Toronto 1968-1978; Part III Jane Jacobs "A Radical Thinker" -- "Cities First"; 5 Visual Order and Perceptual Form: Contrasting Jane Jacobs's Urban Design Rejection with Kevin Lynch's Approach.…”
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Reconsidering Jane Jacobs / edited by Max Page and Timothy Mennel.

Common Ground? : Readings and Reflections on Public Space. by Orum, Anthony M.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Rights And Permissions List; Locating Public Space; Part 1: Public Space as Civil Order; Introduction; The Death and Life of Great American Cities; The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces; The Character of Third Places; The Moral Order of Strangers; Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom; Part 2: Public Space as Power and Resistance; Introduction; The End of Public Space? …”
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.

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Jane Jacobs urban wisdom / Alexander, Don.

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Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs / edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring. by Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006

Table of Contents: “…-- Part four: The ecology of cities, 1984-2000 -- The responsibilities of cities -- Pedaling together -- Foreword to The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Two ways to live -- First letter to the Consumer Policy Institute -- Women as natural entrepreneurs -- Market nurturing run amok -- Against amalgamation -- Part five: Some patterns of future development, 2000-2006 -- Time and change as neighborhood allies -- Canada's hub cities -- Efficiency and the commons -- The sparrow principle -- Uncovering the economy: a new hypothesis -- The end of the plantation age.…”

Naked city : the death and life of authentic urban places / Sharon Zukin. by Zukin, Sharon

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The well-tempered city : what modern science, ancient civilizations, and human nature teach us about the future of urban life / Jonathan F.P. Rose. by Rose, Jonathan F. P.

Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / Benjamin Ross. by Ross, Benjamin

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Readings in Planning Theory by Fainstein, Susan S.

Table of Contents: “…The Dialectics: A Very Brief History -- Key Aspects of a Planning/Design Dialectics -- Dilemmas -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Authoritarian High Modernism -- The Discovery of Society -- The Radical Authority of High Modernism -- Twentieth-Century High Modernism -- 4 The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- 5 Planning the Capitalist City -- Capitalism and Urban Planning -- The Problem of Planning -- Further Reading -- 6 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning -- Introduction -- Deferential Planning ("Technicist Planning") -- Social Reform Planning -- Social Justice Planning…”
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The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein. by Rothstein, Richard

The assassination of Paris / Louis Chevalier ; translated by David P. Jordan ; with a foreword by John Merriman. by Chevalier, Louis, 1911-2001

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Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs / Robert Kanigel. by Kanigel, Robert

HCI remixed : essays on works that have influenced the HCI community / edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald.

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