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 the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well-known for organizing grassroots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and after moving to Canada in 1968, equally influential in canceling the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of highways under construction.
我并没有读完这本书,在读完一半的时候,我就停下来了,并不是因为这本书不够精彩,可能是我跟不上作者的节奏了。作者叙述和讨论的节奏比较缓慢,切入点都是美国的细小的街区生活。我本来不想写对于此书的评论,虽然作者对城市观点是反对学院城市规划原理的,是革新的,但...
评分《美国大城市的死与生(the Death and Life of Great American Cities)》出版于1961年,从此后就变成建筑界、城市规划领域最著名的书之一。我的学生时代一直感到奇怪,怎么一本各个老师都会提起的书却从来没在图书馆里看到。原来上世纪八十年代,清华大学的汪坦教授曾主持翻译...
评分一 大城市里的街道和人行道(尤其是后者)用来干什么,或者有一个用途你永远你永远都想不到,那就是为这个城市提供安全。这是在《美国大城市的死与生》这本书中,作者在第一章就告诉我们的一个令人钦佩的论点。在规划者建筑师们的眼里,城市(书里特指谈的仅仅是大城市)...
评分我读这本书是因为要写城市社会学的读书报告。以下是读书报告,欢迎指正。 阅读了《美国大城市的死与生》之后,我想起了自己的经历。我住在远离市中心的一个大型小区里。所谓“大型”,指的是整个小区的门牌号码有近80个,人口上万。小区的景色很优美,有一个和未名湖相比差不...
评分我常常在城市中迷失——在北京满是尘土的未来朝阳CBD里,在上海习以为常的延安高架的车流堵塞中或是在广州那无限延伸的混乱的广州大道上——这就是所谓步向美好的城市? 勃兴、衰败与重新复活的发展阶段与发展边际在当下的中国城市,表现得仿如潮汐般迅速变更。我们身边满是那...
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评分非常值得看的书,有强烈的个人价值观。
评分还是原版好
评分P90-111, neighborhood parks-critical open space/diversity
评分重读一遍才发现这本书是越读越有味道的,不禁又给加了一星。雅各布斯被称为城市空想家,她的很多观点确实从操作性来说与现实有悖,但不可否认的是她提供可一种创造性的理论。雅各布斯批判正统,几乎批判了我们所熟知、钟爱、崇拜的许多城市规划领域的巨擘,在她看来,这些所谓的专家不过就像盲人摸象(其实谁不是这样呢),程式、同质、平均化的规划是雅各布斯极力反对的,跑去乡村捣鼓更被她看作愚蠢,她认为这种忽略社会资本的简单化操作是在自掘坟墓,关注城市居民的实际体验和生活过程才是拯救城市之亡的良药。
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