Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Herausgeber: Page, Max; Mennel, Timothy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range and complexity of the author's ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of the author's ideas on cities and planning today. It also looks at the international relevance - or

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781932364941
• ISBN-10: 1932364943
• Artikelnr.: 32942141

Autorenporträt

Max Page is Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts Timothy Mennel is senior editor and acquisitions manager at the American Planning Association"

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: More Than Meets the Eye Max Page 2. The Unknown Jane
Jacobs: Geographer, Propagandist, City Planning Idealist Peter L. Laurence
3. An Australian Jane Jacobs Jane M. Jacobs 4. The Literary Craft of Jane
Jacobs Jamin Creed Rowan 5. Urban Warfare: The Battles for Buenos Aires
Sergio Kiernan 6. The Magpie and the Bee: Jane Jacobs' Magnificent
Obsession Richard Harris 7. Jane Jacobs in Dutch Cities and Towns:
Metropolitan Romance in Provincial Reality Gert-Jan Hospers 8. Time, Scale,
and Control: How New Urbanism (Mis)Uses Jane Jacobs Jill L. Grant 9.
Planning the Modern Arab City: The Case of Abu Dhabi Rudayna Abdo, AICP,
and Geoffrey M. Batzel, AICP 10. Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of
Problem a Community Is (Timothy Mennel) 11. A Chinese Perspective Nathan
Cherry, AICP 12. Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning
Thomas J. Campanella