عنوان

The death life of great American cities

Qualification

9780394421599

(Number (ISBN

067974195X

Number

241957

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

The death life of great American cities

General Material Designation

[book]

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Jane Jacobs (Author)

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[New York]

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: [Random House]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

، 1961

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

11 unnumbered pages, 458 pages, 1 unnumbered page

Other Physical Details

: illustrations

Dimensions

; 24 cm

Text of Note

Peculiar nature of cities: Uses of sidewalks, safety; Uses of sidewalks, contact; Uses of sidewalks, assimilating children; Uses of neighborhood parks; Uses of city neighborhoodsConditions for city diversity: Generators of diversity; Need for mixed primary uses; Need for small blocks; Need for aged buildings; Need for concentration; Some myths about diversityForces of decline and regeneration: Self-destruction of diversity; curse of border vacuums; Unslumming and slumming; Gradual money and cataclysmic moneyDifferent tactics: Subsidizing dwellings; Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles; Visual order, its limitations and possibilities; Salvaging projects; Governing and planning districts; Kind of problem a city is

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Text of Note

Jane Jacobs critiques the comprehensive modernist approach to urban planning after 1945. By the 1950s, various American cities were pursuing ambitious urban renewal policies, influenced by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier's concept of the "Radiant City." Jacobs sees this being utterly at odds with urban realities, and leading to the destruction of the city as a living community. This futurist vision insisted on the absolute segregation of the city's different activities into separate zones, linked (though also physically isolated) by super-highways set in wide parkland landscaping. The colossal physical destruction that was necessary to implement this vision tore apart the traditional multi-activity street and densely populated neighborhood that Jacobs avers is the bedrock of urban living

Entry Element

Art, Municipal

Entry Element

Cities and towns - Planning

-- City planning United States

Number

Class number

Entry Element

Jacobs, Jean

Relator Code

author

, Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.

Country

ایران

Date of Transaction

20240102

Call Number

NA 9108 .J3

Previous cataloging

BL

270410

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