Block by block : Jane Jacobs and the future of New York. / txt
Jane Jacobs and the future of New York :
edited by Timothy Mennel, Jo Steffens & Christopher Klemek.
- First edition
- 64 p. ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. book
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Municipal Art Society of New York.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 62).
Table of Contents : Foreword / Judith Rodin 4 -- From "Cities and songs" / Adam Gopnik 5 -- Sounds of New York City from Harlem, 116th & 7th Ave / Quincy Troupe 6 -- Jane Jacobs and the future of New York / Christopher Klemek 7 -- Commemoration / Paul Goldberger 12 -- From "Jane Jacobs revisited" / Karrie Jacobs 13 -- The nature of cities / Christopher Alexander 14 -- A new urbanist's view of Jane Jacobs / John Norquist 15 -- The death and life of great American towns / Michael McDonough 16 -- Big sky over Gowanus / Phillip Lopate 17 -- Jane Jacobs, pragmatist / Joan Ockman 18 -- This is the time when beautiful girls / Thomas de Monchaux 19 -- Pathological urbanity / Tama Janowitz 22 -- Art's sake / Tom Wolfe 24 -- Nature morte / Jesse Reiser 25 -- From "The colossus of New York" / Colson Whitehead 26 -- From "My lost city" / Luc Sante 27 -- From "Analogue" / Zoe Leonard 28 -- Toward that better city / Robert Neuwirth 30 -- Not good, but well behaved / Marshall Brown 33 -- Community vision / Majora Carter 35 -- The perks of the city / Allison Arieff 36 -- Goner Pillow Company / Ben Katchor 37 -- Chow of the city / David McAninch 38 -- How do we shout? / Reverend Billy 39 -- New ideas require old buildings / Lisa Rochon 40 -- Jacobs omnibus / Damon Rich 43 -- The glory of Harlem / Michael Henry Adams 44 -- Musing on the city / Carlton Brown 45 -- Light-years ahead / Roberta Brandes Gratz 46 -- Where I live / Yvonne Durant 47 -- A personal reflection / Ron Shiffman 48 -- From "It happens every day" / Marshall Berman 49 -- History's angel / Nathan Glazer 50 -- Local cities, global problems / Andrew Blum 51 -- Meeting Jane Jacobs / David Grahame Shane 54 -- The nature of economies / Saskia Sassen 55 -- From "Gothamitis" / Adam Gopnik 56 -- From " Designs for working" / Malcolm Gladwell 58 -- The city I love / Tony Goldman 59 -- Mother Jacob's home recipe 61 -- Jane Jacobs bibliography 62 -- First we kill the architects / Danny Lyon 64 --