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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Dark Age Ahead

    Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities.In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation and government; and self-policing ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    “Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or final authority.” —The New York SunHailed by 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 recognized as a masterpiece upon its ... En savoir plus

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  • The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers

    Collections series The CBC Massey Lectures
    The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for many years -- unavailable to the public in any form. Important thinkers whose Massey Lectures are lamentably out of print include the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr ... En savoir plus

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  • 偉大城市的誕生與衰亡:美國都市街道生活的啟發

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    Traduit par 吳鄭重 ...
    Collections series 現代名著譯叢
    讓規劃大師霍華德「田園城市」、建築巨擎科比意「光輝城市」黯然失色的經典名著!世紀好書、永恆必讀經典!超越時間與空間、跨越世代的城市之心2006年4月25日,哥倫比亞廣播公司、《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》等北美各大媒體紛紛以大篇幅報導一名沒有大學文憑和「專業」背景的老太太過世,這就是《偉大城市的誕生與衰亡》一書的作者,珍‧雅各。這是她的第一本書,也是成名之作,一本徹底顛覆當時歐美規劃理論的經典之作。1961年剛出版時,便以淺白易懂的庶民觀點,深入人心。歷經半個世紀,它的影響力至今持續不墜。本書以城市生理學的角度出發,指出城市的規劃與重建,首重了解城市神秘和複雜的運作方式,以及城市人的真實生活。書的第一部分從許多真實案例中歸納出街道鄰里在都市生活中的重要地位。第二部分聚焦一個普遍性原則,就是城市需要一個非常複雜、細緻、多樣化的土地利用形態,在經濟和社會各方面不時相互支持。這也是作者的論述核心 ... En savoir plus

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  • Vital Little Plans

    The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    A new book by influential urbanist Jane Jacobs, released in Jacobs' centenary, and showing her evolution as a writer and thinker.Vital Little Plans will bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, The Death and Life of Great ... En savoir plus

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  • The Nature of Economies

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    Jane Jacobs has spent years changing the way we think about economic life in general. Now, in The Nature of Economies, Jacobs proposes a radical notion that has breath-taking common sense: economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself. With the simplicity of an extremely wise and seasoned thinker, Jane Jacobs shows us that by looking to nature, we can develop economies that are both ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • The Economy of Regions

    Collections series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.According to Jane Jacobs the healthiest economic regions are those which have strong and innovative import-replacing cities of their own. The economies of such city-regions are shaped and reshaped by complex, economically enlivening, interrelating ... En savoir plus

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  • The Economy of Cities

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    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, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible ... En savoir plus

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  • Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    Traduit par Ángel Abad, Ana Useros ...
    Collections series Entrelíneas
    Cincuenta años después de su publicación, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades es, según el New York Times, " probablemente el libro más influyente en la historia de la planificación urbana". Jane Jacobs, columnista y crítica de arquitectura de principios de los años sesenta, afirmaba que la diversidad y la vitalidad de las ciudades estaban siendo destruidas por algunos arquitectos y urbanistas ... En savoir plus

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  • The Question of Separatism

    Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty

    par Jane Jacobs ...
    Jane Jacobs, writing from her adoptive country, uses the problems facing an independence-seeking Quebec and Canada as a whole to examine the universal problem of sovereignty and autonomy that nations great and small have struggled with throughout history. Using Norway’s relatively peaceful divorce from Sweden as an example, Jacobs contends that Canada and Canadians—Quebecois and Anglophones alike ... En savoir plus

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  • Dewey for Artists

    par Mary Jane Jacob ...
    John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive architect of American educational reform, but some of his most important contributions came in his thinking about art.Dewey argued that there is strong social value to be found in art, and it is artists who often most challenge our preconceived notions. Dewey for Artists shows us how Dewey advocated for an "art of democracy." ... En savoir plus

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