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100			_aFuller, Martin
245			_aAn Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities/ _cMartin Fuller, Ryan Moore
260			_a Abingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY: _bRoutledge, _c2017
440			_aThe Macat Library _9819
505			_aWays in to the text Who was Jane Jacobs? What does The Death and Life of Great American Cities say? Why does The Death and Life of Great American Cities Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
520			_aDespite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion, that urban planners ruin great cities, because they don’t understand that it is a city’s social interaction that makes it great. Proposals and policies that are drawn from planning theory do not consider the social dynamics of city life. They are in thrall to futuristic fantasies of a modern way of living that bears no relation to reality, or to the desires of real people living in real spaces. Professionals lobby for separation and standardization, splitting commercial, residential, industrial, and cultural spaces. But a truly visionary approach to urban planning should incorporate spaces with mixed uses, together with short, walkable blocks, large concentrations of people, and a mix of new and old buildings. This creates true urban vitality. Table of Conte
650			_aCity planning -- United States _9820
650			_aVintage _9493
650			_aUrban renewal -- United States _9821
650			_a Urban policy -- United States _9822
690			_aarchitecture
700	1	0	_aRyan Moore _9823
856			_yhttps://www.routledge.com/An-Analysis-of-Jane-Jacobss-The-Death-and-Life-of-Great-American-Cities/Fuller-Moore/p/book/9781912128594
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