Overview :This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding... Read More
Overview :Today, we take for granted the wisdom of renovating old factory buildings into malls or condos, of making once decaying waterfronts into vib... Read More
Overview :The first YA biography of Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker who transformed the way we inhabit and develop our citi... Read More
Overview :"Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or fina... Read More
Overview :A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist No one did more to change how... Read More
Overview :The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day... Read More
Overview :A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs's ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobs... Read More
Overview :A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across field... Read More
Overview :A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyFour influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Gooda... Read More
Overview :People are naturally inclined to look for order in what seems like chaos. Sometimes order is emergent, meaning it reflects not an intentiona... Read More
Overview :SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This... Read More
Overview :This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend... Read More
Overview :In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, middleclass exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many peop... Read More
Overview :The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern Amer... Read More