Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well-known for organizing grassroots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and after moving to Canada in 1968, equally influential in canceling the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of highways under construction.
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
Jane Jacobs前年过世,享年九十一岁。我就是在那时买了这本书,而中文版旋即面市了。这是1961年出版的作品,试问有多少书可以屹立半个世纪而影响力不衰呢?无论如何,半个世纪之后,我们这片大破大立的土地上终于有人明白到Jane Jacobs这本书的时代意义了!只是不知,...
评分摘自《北京规划建设》 作者:俞孔坚 城市到底是什么?城市的生命来自何处? 城市规划的目的是什么?是谁毁了我们的城市?怎样来挽救我们的城市活力? 简•雅各布斯以其鲜明的建设性的批判立场,于1961年发表了《美国大城市的死与生》,宣言般地提出了城市的本质...
评分再次感谢豆瓣,好像每次一提到读书就要先感谢豆瓣,事实上正是如此。豆瓣让我养成了看书的习惯,“思想之美”——我喜欢用这四个字来形容读书带给我的感受。而这本书《美国大城市的死与生》无疑也是我非常感兴趣的一本书。 今天在图书大厦花费了一些时间找到了这本书,...
评分这本书讲的,并不局限于城市与规划。或者,我们可以这么比喻,把人的心灵和性格比作一座城市。从一个孩子诞生开始,他同样需要规划。 导言: 中国现在的城市规划,正在走西方五六十年代的老路。原来,美国的规划师也曾经那么主观,1959年,作者(简·雅各布斯)给一位波士顿规...
评分Jane Jacobs前年过世,享年九十一岁。我就是在那时买了这本书,而中文版旋即面市了。这是1961年出版的作品,试问有多少书可以屹立半个世纪而影响力不衰呢?无论如何,半个世纪之后,我们这片大破大立的土地上终于有人明白到Jane Jacobs这本书的时代意义了!只是不知,...
超好看的~
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评分social and anthropological approach towards city planning. 很少看这种书会被感动到的感觉
评分: TU984.712/J17
评分作者真是太能BB了,完全不能节制自己的表达。基本上核心观点看“First、Second……”这些段落就够了,我宁愿去做一百篇雅思阅读也不想在一个观点中看见这么多废话…
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