THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES-Jane Jacobs-SUPERB, Rare 1st HC

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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES-Jane Jacobs-SUPERB, Rare 1st HC:
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Hi! You\'re looking at a SUPERB overall condition book which is a classic and comprehensive examination of American Cities by author JANE JACOBS--the book is a RARE and hard to find STATED FIRST PRINTING and a HARDCOVER with no dustjacket.This book is in SUPERB overall condition and the book has just slight shelfwear on the cloth cover, a slight factory-state wrinkle on the upper spine end, a small owner\'s name and date of purchase on the upper edge of the front board, a single slight scuff on the upper page edge and just very light evidence of gentle browsing but NO other significant flaws!The book is titledThe Death and Life of Great American Citiesand it was written by JANE JACOBS; it was published by Random House in 1961 and is a STATED 1st PRINTING copy.

The Death and Life of Great American Citieswas described byThe New York Timesas “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments.” Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.

A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!

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