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  • Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    104,61 kr.

  • 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

    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    62,63 kr.

  • The Nature of Economies

    af Jane Jacobs ...
    From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant ... Læs mere

    41,74 kr.

  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    af Jane Jacobs ...
    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 ... Læs mere

    171,58 kr.

  • Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades

    af Jane Jacobs ...
    Oversat af Ángel Abad, Ana Useros ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Economy of Regions

    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    7,78 kr.

  • Dewey for Artists

    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." ... Læs mere

    127,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Economy of Cities

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    95,36 kr.

  • The Question of Separatism

    Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    103,36 kr.

  • The Shape of the City

    Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning

    af John Sewell ...
    Serier serie Heritage
    Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.In this far-ranging review, Sewell recounts the arrival ... Læs mere

    248,74 kr.

  • Systems of Survival

    A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

    af Jane Jacobs ...
    With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life.In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, ... Læs mere

    75,22 kr.

  • Dark Age Ahead

    af Jane Jacobs ...
    In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we’re at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs—renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities—pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; ... Læs mere

    87,36 kr.