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Books narrated by Jane Jacobs

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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Systems of Survival

    A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

    by 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, ... Read more

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  • Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Economy of Cities

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Vital Little Plans

    The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activistNo one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.Vital Little Plans is an ... Read more

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  • Cities and the Wealth of Nations

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally-produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Economies

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Economy of Regions

    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Dark Age Ahead

    by 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; ... Read more

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  • The Question of Separatism

    Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Edge of Empire

    Postcolonialism and the City

    Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. From London, the one-time heart of the empire, to Perth and Brisbane, scenes of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city, Jacobs emphasises the global geography of the local ... Read more

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  • Environment, Power, and Justice

    Southern African Histories

    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.This book highlights the ways poor and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny them a healthy and ... Read more

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