Block by block : Jane Jacobs and the future of New York. / edited by Timothy Mennel, Jo Steffens & Christopher Klemek. txt
New York : The Municipal Art Society , 2007Edición: First editionDescripción: 64 p. ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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- Jane Jacobs and the future of New York
- HT168.N5 B56 2007
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"This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding." From this first sentence of the seminal 1961 bookThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs gave voice to those who believed the bulldozing, postwar policies of urban renewal were a dangerous threat to city life. She spent the next forty-five years challenging citizens to stand up for vibrant, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods such as New York's Greenwich Village. Jane Jacobs's death in 2006 occasioned the beginnings of a critical re-evaluation of her achievements. With major new development plans--for sites from the East River to the West Side and from Lower Manhattan to Queens--either under consideration or in progress, it seems the perfect time to assess the relevance of her ideas for contemporary urban life.
Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from an impressive group of writers and cultural critics including Marshall Berman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Paul Goldberger, Tama Janowitz, Ben Katchor, Phillip Lopate, Luc Sante, Bill "Reverend Billy" Talen, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Wolfe. This impressive lineupof contributors discusses the contemporary relevance of Jacobs's ideas about large-scale redevelopment, gentrification,and activism. While their viewpoints on these issues may differ, they continue the important debate begun by Jacobsabout the challenges facing New York and other great cities everywhere.
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 --
Worldwide Books, Apr/08/2009, 2009-902.