The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition Audiobook (Free)

Thirty years following its publication, The Loss of life and Life of Great American Metropolitan areas was described by The New York Instances as “possibly the most influential one work in the history of town planning….[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It really is to begin with a work of books; the descriptions of street lifestyle as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric accounts of traditional planning theory can be read for pleasure actually by those that long ago consumed and appropriated the book’s arguments.” Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in NEW YORK in the first sixties, argued that urban variety and vitality were being ruined by powerful architects and town planners. Demanding, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs’s small masterpiece is usually a blueprint for the humanistic administration of cities. It really is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author provides written a fresh foreword for this Modern Library model.