Jane Jacobs was the legendary author ofThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works includeThe Economy of Cities,Systems of Survival,andThe Nature of Economies. She died in 2006.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Review Award for
Non-Fiction
"Learned, iconoclastic and exciting . . . Jacobs' diagnosis of the
decay of cities in an increasingly integrated world economy is on
the mark."—The New York Times Book Review
"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal . . . It is
written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is
wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."—Los Angeles
Times
"Not only comprehensible but entertaining. . . . Like Mrs. Jacobs'
other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and
elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating
experience."—The New York Times
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