The Death and Life of Great American Cities

About “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”

Described by The New York Times as perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning and also a work of literature, this book by Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argues that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners, offering a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities.