EYES ON THE STREET

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arre sted twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debatesall of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, ba sed on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher/ the high school poet/ the mother who raise...[Llegir més]