THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principl es by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of th e Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-b locks, r...[Read more]