Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview
Author: Jacobs, Jane
ISBN: 9781612195346
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 May 2016
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
Published on the centenary of Jane Jacobs's birth, an indispensible collection of conversations with America's greatest most influential urban critic
"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 Sun
Hailed 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 publication in 1961. In the decades that followed, Jacobs remained a brilliant and revered commentator on architecture, urban life, and economics until her death in 2006. These interviews capture Jacobs at her very best and are an essential reminder of why Jacobs was-and remains-unrivaled in her analyses and her ability to cut through cant and received wisdom.
ISBN: 9781612195346
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 May 2016
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
Published on the centenary of Jane Jacobs's birth, an indispensible collection of conversations with America's greatest most influential urban critic
"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 Sun
Hailed 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 publication in 1961. In the decades that followed, Jacobs remained a brilliant and revered commentator on architecture, urban life, and economics until her death in 2006. These interviews capture Jacobs at her very best and are an essential reminder of why Jacobs was-and remains-unrivaled in her analyses and her ability to cut through cant and received wisdom.
