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.
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.
摘自《北京规划建设》 作者:俞孔坚 城市到底是什么?城市的生命来自何处? 城市规划的目的是什么?是谁毁了我们的城市?怎样来挽救我们的城市活力? 简•雅各布斯以其鲜明的建设性的批判立场,于1961年发表了《美国大城市的死与生》,宣言般地提出了城市的本质...
評分Jane Jacobs前年过世,享年九十一岁。我就是在那时买了这本书,而中文版旋即面市了。这是1961年出版的作品,试问有多少书可以屹立半个世纪而影响力不衰呢?无论如何,半个世纪之后,我们这片大破大立的土地上终于有人明白到Jane Jacobs这本书的时代意义了!只是不知,...
評分下面这些都不是我写的,原链接在这里。 http://book.douban.com/review/6190677/ 我想到的作者都想到了,我就不重写一遍浪费时间了。 要想在城市的街道和地区生发丰富的多样性,四个条件不可缺少: 1)地区以及其尽可能多的内部区域的主要功能要多于一个,最好是多于两个。 2...
評分下面这些都不是我写的,原链接在这里。 http://book.douban.com/review/6190677/ 我想到的作者都想到了,我就不重写一遍浪费时间了。 要想在城市的街道和地区生发丰富的多样性,四个条件不可缺少: 1)地区以及其尽可能多的内部区域的主要功能要多于一个,最好是多于两个。 2...
評分交给老师的读书笔记删掉一些八股剩下的零碎东西: 每次有朋友来厦门旅游,他们最喜欢现代整洁色彩斑斓的环岛路,和连接鼓浪屿历史文物别墅与可爱店铺的街道。而我更喜欢一个人漫步在两旁晾晒着普通内衣裤的有人情味的小巷。它们也一样安静,但背景里人们琐碎的生活噪音以及交...
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评分a classic. but, I never finished a whole chapter. only bits by bits
评分a simple book widens my pt of view to streets & cities. one of my FYP references
评分social and anthropological approach towards city planning. 很少看這種書會被感動到的感覺
评分非常值得看的書,有強烈的個人價值觀。
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