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Becoming Jane Jacobs

Laurence, Peter L., author

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\"Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the 1950s. As the legend goes, Jacobs, a housewife, single-handedly stood up to Robert Moses, New York City's powerful master builder, and other city planners who sought first to level her Greenwich Village neighborhood and then to drive a highway through it. Jacobs's most effective weapons in these David-versus-Goliath battles, and in writing her book, were her powers of observation and common sense\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subject: Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. / Jacobs, Jane 1916-2006 / 1900-1999 / City planners United States Biography. / City planners Canada Biography. / Women city planners United States Biography. / Women city planners Canada Biography. / City planning United States History 20th century. / City planning Canada History 20th century. / Urban renewal United States History 20th century. / Urban renewal Canada History 20th century. / Sociology, Urban Philosophy. / Urbanistes âEtats-Unis Biographies. / Urbanistes Canada Biographies. / Femmes urbanistes âEtats-Unis Biographies. / Femmes urbanistes Canada Biographies. / Urbanisme âEtats-Unis Histoire 20e siلecle. / Urbanisme Canada Histoire 20e siلecle. / Râenovation urbaine âEtats-Unis Histoire 20e siلecle. / Râenovation urbaine Canada Histoire 20e siلecle. / Sociologie urbaine Philosophie. / City planners. / City planning. / Urban renewal. / Women city planners. / Canada. / United States.
• ISBN: 9780812247886, 0812247884, 9780812224429, 0812224426

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HT167.L353 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE