Jacobs, Jane: Works. Selections
Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs / edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.
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- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006 (author.)
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Alternativt namn: Butzner, Jane, 1916-2006
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Alternativt namn: Jacobs, Jane Butzner
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Zipp, Samuel, (editor.)
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Storring, Nathan, (editor.)
- ISBN 978-0-399-58960-7 (hbk)
- First edition.
- Publicerad: New York : Random House, [2016]
- Engelska xliii, 490 pages
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Sammanfattning
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- Part one: A city naturalist, 1934-1952 -- While arranging verses for a book -- Diamonds in the tough -- Flowers come to town -- Caution, men working -- 30,000 unemployed and 7,000 empty houses in Scranton, neglected city -- Islands the boats pass by -- No virtue in meek conformity -- Part two: City building, 1952-1965 -- Philadelphia's redevelopment: a progress report -- Pavement pounders and Olympians -- The missing link in city redevelopment -- Our "surplus" land -- Reason, emotion, pressure: there is no other recipe -- Metropolitan government -- Downtown is for people -- A living network of relationships -- A great unbalance -- The decline of function -- Part three: How new work begins, 1965-1984 -- The self-generating growth of cities -- On civil disobedience -- Strategies for helping cities -- A city getting hooked on the expressway drug -- The real problem of cities -- Can big plans solve the problem of renewal? -- 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.
- A survey of Jacobs's career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume: essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures, covering her work in urban and economic planning as well as globalization, feminism, and universal health care.
Ämnesord
- City planning -- United States. (LCSH)
- City planning. (LCSH)
- Sociology, Urban -- United States. (LCSH)
- Sociology, Urban. (LCSH)
- Urban policy -- United States. (LCSH)
- Urban policy. (LCSH)
- Stadsplanering (sao)
- Stadssociologi (sao)
- Urban politik (sao)
- City planning (LCSH)
- Urban policy (LCSH)
- Sociology, Urban (LCSH)
- Förenta staterna
Personnamn
- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006
Klassifikation
- HT167 (LCC)
- 307.1/2160973 (DDC)
- Odg (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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