The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

published in 1992

first published in 1961

Nonfiction

ⓧ Currently checked out

458 pages

published by Vintage Books

published in New York, NY

owned in Printed Book format

My top pick for must-reads within urban design. Incredible, insightful, warm toward humanity, she is everything I want to be in a thinker.

literature notes

P70 a sidewalk life is a system, not a talent or a proclivity of either an individual or a type of person. Jacobs removes the bias and assignment by pointing to the “concrete, tangible facilities” as its generators.

Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. 1992. Printed Book.