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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities 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 s... Full description

Important places

Greenwich Village (89)
Baltimore (390)
Boston (1,284)
Chicago (1,721)
Fort Worth (69)
New York (7,400)
Philadelphia (1,090)
Pittsburgh (1,170)

Counties

Allegheny (1,224)
Cook (1,792)
New York (8,072)
Baltimore (440)
Tarrant (77)
Suffolk (1,359)
Philadelphia (1,109)

Regions

Maryland (1,306)
Pennsylvania (4,458)
Massachusetts (3,085)
Texas (2,882)
Illinois (2,704)
New York (9,763)

Countries

United States (64,950)

Other geographical areas

Allegheny Plateau (173)
Piedmont (USA) (1,063)
Appalachian Mountains (1,111)
Central Lowlands (North America) (1,334)
Great Plains (2,255)
New England (5,830)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)