English language
Published Jan. 1, 1961 by Random House.
"Thirty years after its publication, 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, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable."--Provided by publisher
Esse livro fala sobre a visão de Jane Jacobs sobre o urbanismo praticado na década de 50 nos Estados Unidos (que ainda está em voga) e o quanto ele é prejudicial a todos nós. Se você se interessa pelo assunto mas não quer encarar esse calhamaço procura a Wikipedia e outras fontes sobre a Jacobs, vale muito a pena!
