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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs
Category: History
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities not nations that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods ...Show more
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
Category: Politics
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we're at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are ...Show more
Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Category: Architecture | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsy ...Show more
Jane Jacobs - the Last Interview And Other Conversations by Jane Jacobs
Category: Biography Memoir
Hailed by the The New York Times Book Review as 'perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning,' Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instantly recognised as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1961. In the decades that followed, Jacobs remained a br ...Show more
ONCE UPON A SUMMER NIGHT by Nancy Scanlon; Jane Jacobs (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Mists of Fate Ser.
Colin O'Rourke is expanding Celtic Connections, his matchmaking business, to the UK and Ireland. However, its success is threatened before it opens its doors when a prominent UK gossip columnist publishes a slanderous article about his company. The columnist agrees to retract her column ... if he can su ...Show more
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Category: History
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsymp ...Show more
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Category: History
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsym ...Show more
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Category: Architecture | Series: Modern Library
The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Category: Architecture
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 imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pr ...Show more
Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs by Jane Jacobs (Yale - NUS College, Singapore)
Category: Architecture
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"started a global conver ...Show more
Vital Little Plans - The Short Works of Jane Jacobs by Jane Jacobs
Category: Home and Garden
No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.Vital Little Plans is an essential compa ...Show more
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