![My original copy is held together with an elastic band. I love this book and have learned so much from Jacobs.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
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, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/ca88127ae8632f0e33d9c2351c83de1d/tumblr_mk7acgE8u11s9tbs8o1_400.jpg)
My original copy is held together with an elastic band. I love this book and have learned so much from Jacobs.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
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, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
What if a 10-year-old designed a city? | GreenBiz
A big part of making something smarter is asking the right “what if” questions to the right set of people. A smarter city is less about what technology, and more about how technology is applied in order to make a positive impact in people’s lives. In defining what it takes to make a city smarter, it is important to start with those that live and work and go to school in a city.
6 Ideas Every City Should Steal From Barcelona
This is an article By Brent Toderian posted on Atlantic Cities dated November 30, 2012.
Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, just so happens to be a model of urban planning. This article sheds light on 6 ideas every city in the world should adopt from Barcelona. Interestingly, in most cases, it is not the urban process, but the attitude to that defines the outcome at ground level.
Planned Cities From Space
Quite a wonderful view!
After Sandy, Transforming Coastal Cities
My first post for HuffPo concerns how we need to think anew about how we plan, build, and inhabit urban areas near water. The archive of the webcast mentioned in the post will be up shortly. Comments and criticism welcome!
Cities With Denser Cores Do Better
One more endorsement of density as our friend.
How to cure traffic jams.
How ready is your city for massive flooding? Here’s one reason why I study leadership in the context of climate change and urbanization: it is leadership (or lack thereof) that stands between us and the next disaster.
Nice article in The Atlantic.
