Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original...

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first...

In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of...

A classic attack on the principles of city planning, standing as one of the great works on the nature of the city. von Jacobs, Jane

"Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life" von Jane Jacobs ist ein einflussreiches Werk, das die Rolle von Städten in der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung untersucht. Jacobs argumentiert, dass Städte, nicht Nationen, die...