The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her father was a physician and her mother taught school and worked as a nurse. After high school and a year spent as a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York, where she found a succession of jobs as a stenographer and wrote free-lance articles about the city's many working districts, which fascinated her. In 1952, after a number of writing and editing jobs ranging in subject matter from metallurgy to a geography of the United States for foreign readers, she became an associate editor of Architectural Forum. She was becoming increasingly skeptical of conventional planning beliefs as she noticed that the city rebuilding projects she was assigned to write about seemed neither safe, interesting, alive, nor good economics for cities once the projects were built and in operation. She gave a speech to that effect at Harvard in 1956, and this led to an article in Fortune magazine entitled "Downtown Is for People," which in turn led to The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The book was published in 1961 and produced permanent changes in the debate over urban renewal and the future of cities.

In opposition to the kind of large-scale, bulldozing government intervention in city planning associated with Robert Moses and with federal slum-clearing projects, Jacobs proposed a renewal from the ground up, emphasizing mixed use rather than exclusively residential or commercial districts, and drawing on the human vitality of existing neighborhoods: "Vital cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving, and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties.... Lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves." Although Jacobs's lack of experience as either architect or city planner drew criticism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was quickly recognized as one of the most original and powerfully argued books of its day. It was variously praised as "the most refreshing, provocative, stimulating, and exciting study of this greatest of our problems of living which I have seen" (Harrison Salisbury) and "a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city" (William H. Whyte).

Jacobs is married to an architect, who she says taught her enough to become an architectural writer. They have two sons and a daughter. In 1968 they moved to Toronto, where Jacobs has often assumed an activist role in matters relating to development and has been an adviser on the reform of the city's planning and housing policies. She was a leader in the successful campaign to block construction of a major expressway on the grounds that it would do more harm than good, and helped prevent the demolition of an entire neighborhood downtown. She has been a Canadian citizen since 1974. Her writings include The Economy of Cities (1969); The Question of Separatism (1980), a consideration of the issue of sovereignty for Quebec; Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984), a major study of the importance of cities and their regions in the global economy; and her most recent book, Systems of Survival (1993).

出版者:Modern Library
作者:Jane Jacobs
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页数:624
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出版时间:1993-2-9
价格:USD 23.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780679600473
丛书系列:Modern Library
图书标签:
  • 城市 
  • 城市设计 
  • 社会学 
  • 城市规划 
  • 建筑 
  • 规划理念 
  • 美國 
  • Architecture 
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Thirty years after its publication, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" was described by "The New York Times" as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning.... It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.

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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,...  

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看完每一章后,拿中文简单归纳了一下。 [1.前言] 表达对当下(当时)城市规划的不满,欲提出自己的新规则。首先提出城市与郊区/城镇不同,城市的本质是人的集合,显要特点是大,不能将城市以“田园”的形式处理,即分散住户,大面积带入自然特征。反对“自然”、“草地”即是人...  

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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,...  

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this book changed my whole idea of thinking about "Good" city! everyone interested in Architecture or City Design should definitely read this!!

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大致翻了翻。美国城市问题只能是作为一个参照吧。

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this book changed my whole idea of thinking about "Good" city! everyone interested in Architecture or City Design should definitely read this!!

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我看她最后还是输给了robert moses

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力荐!相对于其他Situationist大而空的批判,Jane Jacob这位和蔼的老太太自身没有任何学历背景,仅仅是由日常生活的思考汇聚成的这本书,反而成为了对现代城市规划最好的批判性反思。书中所举的例子繁琐但生动,特别是“芭蕾街区”等活灵活现的词语很完美的展现了所谓客观的规划是如何一步一步和我们的日常生活合为一体这一惊人但有趣的事实。

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