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 unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment.

Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-c...

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within th...

Dood en leven van grote Amerikaanse steden

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Een van de meest invloedrijke boeken in de geschiedenis van de stadsplanning is ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’ van de New Yorkse publiciste Jane Jacobs. In september verschijnt, bijna 50 jaar na de eerste druk, de eerste Nederlandse vertaling van dit beroemde boek.

Ode aan de metropool

Jacobs houdt van zinderende grote steden, met wijken als de Jordaan, de Marollen en Montmartre. Ze pleit voor een dynamische en levendige stad, waar m...