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发表于2024-12-23
The Death and Life of Great American Cities pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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 can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.
Jane Jacobs was born on May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her father was a physician and her mother taught school and worked as a nurse. After high school and a year spent as a reporter on the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York, where she found a succession of jobs as a stenographer and wrote free-lance articles about the city's many working districts, which fascinated her. In 1952, after a number of writing and editing jobs ranging in subject matter from metallurgy to a geography of the United States for foreign readers, she became an associate editor of Architectural Forum. She was becoming increasingly skeptical of conventional planning beliefs as she noticed that the city rebuilding projects she was assigned to write about seemed neither safe, interesting, alive, nor good economics for cities once the projects were built and in operation. She gave a speech to that effect at Harvard in 1956, and this led to an article in Fortune magazine entitled "Downtown Is for People," which in turn led to The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The book was published in 1961 and produced permanent changes in the debate over urban renewal and the future of cities.
In opposition to the kind of large-scale, bulldozing government intervention in city planning associated with Robert Moses and with federal slum-clearing projects, Jacobs proposed a renewal from the ground up, emphasizing mixed use rather than exclusively residential or commercial districts, and drawing on the human vitality of existing neighborhoods: "Vital cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving, and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties.... Lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves." Although Jacobs's lack of experience as either architect or city planner drew criticism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was quickly recognized as one of the most original and powerfully argued books of its day. It was variously praised as "the most refreshing, provocative, stimulating, and exciting study of this greatest of our problems of living which I have seen" (Harrison Salisbury) and "a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city" (William H. Whyte).
Jacobs is married to an architect, who she says taught her enough to become an architectural writer. They have two sons and a daughter. In 1968 they moved to Toronto, where Jacobs has often assumed an activist role in matters relating to development and has been an adviser on the reform of the city's planning and housing policies. She was a leader in the successful campaign to block construction of a major expressway on the grounds that it would do more harm than good, and helped prevent the demolition of an entire neighborhood downtown. She has been a Canadian citizen since 1974. Her writings include The Economy of Cities (1969); The Question of Separatism (1980), a consideration of the issue of sovereignty for Quebec; Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984), a major study of the importance of cities and their regions in the global economy; and her most recent book, Systems of Survival (1993).
大致翻了翻。美国城市问题只能是作为一个参照吧。
评分我看她最后还是输给了robert moses
评分this book changed my whole idea of thinking about "Good" city! everyone interested in Architecture or City Design should definitely read this!!
评分力荐!相对于其他Situationist大而空的批判,Jane Jacob这位和蔼的老太太自身没有任何学历背景,仅仅是由日常生活的思考汇聚成的这本书,反而成为了对现代城市规划最好的批判性反思。书中所举的例子繁琐但生动,特别是“芭蕾街区”等活灵活现的词语很完美的展现了所谓客观的规划是如何一步一步和我们的日常生活合为一体这一惊人但有趣的事实。
评分大致翻了翻。美国城市问题只能是作为一个参照吧。
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...
评分摘自《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...
评分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...
评分阅读的过程中总是想起许鞍华的《天水围的日与夜》。 记得看完那部电影后自己写了这么一句话:失落在钢筋水泥的工具理性中的人与人之间的真情,才是一个社会自愈机制的根本。 我也曾用温情来描述这部电影,一个平民区的中年妇女,年轻丧偶,白天在超市做工,回家为儿子洗衣做...
评分美国著名城市规划学家简·雅各布斯曾说过——“伟大的街道造就伟大的城市”。任何城市都是由局部的街道所构成,而街道里则流淌着城市的文化基因。街道、建筑,以及围绕它们所产生的故事、传说、文化、叙事,往往构成我们对一座城市的基本认知。 其实,如果能够以百年、甚至千年...
The Death and Life of Great American Cities pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024