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Jacobs, Jane,1916-2006,
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Uniform titel:Works.Selections
Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs /edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.
Förlag, utgivningsår, omfång ...
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Publicerad:New York :Publicerad:Random House,Publicerad:[2016]
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xliii, 490 pages :illustrations ;22 cm
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textrdacontent
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unmediatedrdamedia
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volumerdacarrier
Nummerbeteckningar
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LIBRIS-ID:22528318
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ISBN:978-0-399-58960-7 (hbk)
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ISBN:0-399-58960-0 (hbk)
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Ogiltigt nummer / annan version:9780399589614 (ebook)
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40026415402
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99970887866
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-468) and index.
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Innehåll: 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.
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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 och genrebeteckningar
Biuppslag (personer, institutioner, konferenser, titlar ...)
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Zipp, Samuel,
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Storring, Nathan,
(editor.)
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- 251910 (Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006, author.)
- 164085 (Stadsplanering sao)
- 163761 (Stadssociologi sao)
- 243970 (Urban politik sao)
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