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The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs. The book is a critique of 1950s urban planning policy, which it holds responsible for the decline of many city neighborhoods in the United States. [1] The book is Jacobs' best-known and most influential work. [2]
Jane Isabel Jacobs [1] OC OOnt (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. [2]
Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.
Pages in category "Books by Jane Jacobs" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Dark Age Ahead;
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics is a 1992 book written by American urban activist Jane Jacobs. [1] [2] It describes two fundamental and distinct ethical systems, or "syndromes" as she calls them: that of the Guardian and that of Commerce. She argues that these supply direction for the conduct of ...
The title refers to Jane Jacobs's best-known and most influential work, [9] her 1961 nonfiction, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she lay the blame for the urban decay of America's cities on misguided 20th century urban planning policies.
Jane Margaret Jacobs (born 2 May 1958) is an Australian academic, and until 2023 served as Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College and formerly as Professor of Cultural Geography, in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously at the University of Melbourne. She is now an Honorary (Principal Fellow ...
Import replacement refers to an urban free market economic process of entrepreneurs replacing the imports of the city with production from within the city.. The idea was invented by Jane Jacobs [1] who spun off from the idea of import substitution developed by Andre Gunder Frank and widely discussed during the first and second Latin American debt crisis.
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