The Death and Life of Great American Cities : txt
Jane Jacobs.
- 458 p. 18 cm. book
Include index.
Contents: 1 Introduction 3 -- Part One The Peculiar Nature of Cities : 2 The uses of sidewalks : safety 29 -- 3 The uses of sidewalks : contact 55 -- 4. The uses of sidewalks : assimilating children 74 -- 5 The uses of neighborhood parks 89 -- 6 The uses of city neighborhoods 112 -- Part Two The Conditions for City Diversity : 7 The generators of diversity 143 -- 8 The need for primary mixed uses 152 -- 9 The need for small blocks 178 -- 10 The need for aged buildings 187 -- 11 The need for concentration 200 -- 12 Some myths about diversity 222 -- Part Three Forces of Decline and Generation -- 13 The self destruction of diversity 241 -- 14 The curse of border vacuums 257 -- 15 Unslumming and slumming 270 -- 16 Gradual money and cataclysmic money 291 -- Part Four Different Tactics : 17 Subsidizing dwellings 321 -- 18 Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles 338 -- 19 Visual order: its limitations and possibilities 372 -- 20 Salvaging projects 392 -- 21 Governing and planning districts, 405 -- 22 The kind of problem a city is 428 -- Index 449 --
City planning City planning--Environmental aspects. Sustainable design Fills Earthwork Public art