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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrateur(s): Donna Rawlins
- Durée: 18 h
- Catégories: Sciences sociales et politiques, Politique
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Auteur(s): Jeff Speck
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Speck
- Durée: 6 h et 45 min
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that’s easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick.
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- Auteur(s): Colin Ellard
- Narrateur(s): John Fleming
- Durée: 8 h et 31 min
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In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating.
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Walkable City Rules
- 101 Steps to Making Better Places
- Auteur(s): Jeff Speck
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Speck
- Durée: 8 h et 6 min
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Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable - for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment - yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Auteur(s): Germaine Halegoua
- Narrateur(s): Wendy Tremont King
- Durée: 5 h et 33 min
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?
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Silent Spring
- Auteur(s): Rachel Carson
- Narrateur(s): Susie Berneis
- Durée: 10 h et 43 min
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Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT, a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide, on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the damage they've caused to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans. An instant best seller that was read by President Kennedy during the summer of 1962, this classic remains one of the best introductions to the complicated and controversial subject.
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Still relevant today
- Écrit par KL le 2019-08-11
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- Auteur(s): Peter Moskowitz
- Narrateur(s): Kevin T. Collins
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. How to Kill a City takes listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised.
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Not just a problem in the United States.
- Écrit par Rattail Jimmy le 2020-01-07
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- Auteur(s): Jeff Speck
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Speck
- Durée: 6 h et 45 min
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Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that’s easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick.
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- Auteur(s): Colin Ellard
- Narrateur(s): John Fleming
- Durée: 8 h et 31 min
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In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating.
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Walkable City Rules
- 101 Steps to Making Better Places
- Auteur(s): Jeff Speck
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Speck
- Durée: 8 h et 6 min
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Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable - for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment - yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his best-selling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
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Smart Cities
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Auteur(s): Germaine Halegoua
- Narrateur(s): Wendy Tremont King
- Durée: 5 h et 33 min
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Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?
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Silent Spring
- Auteur(s): Rachel Carson
- Narrateur(s): Susie Berneis
- Durée: 10 h et 43 min
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Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT, a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide, on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the damage they've caused to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans. An instant best seller that was read by President Kennedy during the summer of 1962, this classic remains one of the best introductions to the complicated and controversial subject.
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Still relevant today
- Écrit par KL le 2019-08-11
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How to Kill a City
- Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
- Auteur(s): Peter Moskowitz
- Narrateur(s): Kevin T. Collins
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. How to Kill a City takes listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised.
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Not just a problem in the United States.
- Écrit par Rattail Jimmy le 2020-01-07
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
- Auteur(s): Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars
- Narrateur(s): Roman Mars
- Durée: 10 h et 49 min
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99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs.
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Enjoyable and Informative!
- Écrit par Pierre Gauthier le 2020-11-30
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Think Like an Architect
- Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
- Auteur(s): Hal Box
- Narrateur(s): Mark D. Mickelson
- Durée: 7 h et 6 min
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The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public buildings; professional architects design only about five percent of the built environment.
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loved it, BAS
- Écrit par Matt Steacy le 2018-07-07
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The Geography of Nowhere
- The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
- Auteur(s): James Howard Kunstler
- Narrateur(s): Al Kessel
- Durée: 12 h et 35 min
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In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the places where we live and work, to build communities that are once again worthy of our affection. Kunstler proposes that by reviving civic art and civic life, we will rediscover public virtue and a new vision of the common good.
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Valuable insights and interesting arguments but..
- Écrit par Kat le 2020-06-02
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Palaces for the People
- How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
- Auteur(s): Eric Klinenberg
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 8 h et 32 min
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In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed. These are places where people gather, making friends across group lines and strengthening the entire community. Klinenberg calls this the “social infrastructure”: When it is strong, neighborhoods flourish; when it is neglected, as it has been in recent years, families and individuals must fend for themselves.
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- Auteur(s): Michael Pollan
- Narrateur(s): Michael Pollan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Auteur(s): Matthew Desmond
- Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
- Durée: 11 h et 3 min
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In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut.
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Deeply Sad Learning
- Écrit par Christan le 2019-01-15
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Why Architecture Matters
- Auteur(s): Paul Goldberger
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually" - with its impact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads."
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Auteur(s): Robert A. Caro
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 66 h et 9 min
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Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the 20th century, The Power Broker is a galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the 20th century.
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Thorough and incredible
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-04-01
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
- Auteur(s): Donald Shoup
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain
- Durée: 23 h et 47 min
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In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why our cities sprawl on a scale fit more for cars than for people. But it doesn't have to be this way.
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Capital City
- Gentrification and the Real Estate State
- Auteur(s): Samuel Stein
- Narrateur(s): Emily Beresford
- Durée: 5 h et 28 min
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Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms 60 percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and developer.
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Why Wheel Estate is the Millenial's Future
- Écrit par Robgoren le 2019-09-03
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The Well-Tempered City
- What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
- Auteur(s): Jonathan F. P. Rose
- Narrateur(s): Barry Abrams
- Durée: 14 h et 18 min
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Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity - and the home of 80 percent of the world's population by 2050. As the 21st century progresses, metropolitan areas will bear the brunt of global megatrends such as climate change, natural resource depletion, population growth, income inequality, mass migrations, and education and health disparities, among many others.
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Auteur(s): Richard Rothstein
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grupper
- Durée: 9 h et 32 min
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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Wonderful read
- Écrit par Sean Bob-Iwe le 2020-11-24
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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 60s, 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.
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- Monique Osborne
- 2020-04-25
A must-read for any avid Reader.
Timeless in that the systems she describes are still here, public vs corporate development, people vs concrete. it doesn't matter what your ideology, reading this book will enrich your understanding of the complexities easily judged as chaos of cities.
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- Meghan
- 2015-02-13
Fantastic text, dull on audio
This text is foundational on the subject and I can't speak negatively about it, but it is difficult to listen to for the duration simply because it's so academic.
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- deborah
- 2011-11-17
Dated But Relevant
A must read for the history of urban life and how important it is to think of cities like a living organism, in need of understanding on a deeper level, and in need of sustenance from within and above. Also provides a road map of local political action in confronting governmental mistakes and powerful people. Gives great power to the working poor. Written in the early 1960s about a New York City urban life that no longer exists, it still rings true for older listeners who remember such a time.
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- Kristina O’Donnell
- 2016-02-03
Robotic voice narration
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A different narrator
What did you like best about this story?
The actual story
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Donna Rawlins?
Someone less robotic (I think this narrator must be the person they hire for voice programming making her voice associated with Siri-esque narration)
What character would you cut from The Death and Life of Great American Cities?
N/A
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- Bjarte
- 2012-12-07
An important book for architects!
Would you consider the audio edition of The Death and Life of Great American Cities to be better than the print version?
A thoroughly written book with deep insight into city planning, development, mixed use, the importance of diversity and urbanism in general. Jane Jacobs will stand out as a pillar and a strong reminder of what's still going on today, only that the scale of things have now, gone totally out of whack. The dynamics of people and economical forces (high or low) will be the same as long as the industrial world operate with the same systems as today. The reader for this audiobook could have been a little more vivid in expression and melody, but the diction is flawless.
"a must hear"
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- abdelrahmanazmi
- 2018-08-27
Vital Book
A must-to-read book for any architect or urban planner. Theory is deep and language's a bit hard. Need to read it many time. It worths it.
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- Michael
- 2018-07-03
New light for understanding cities!
I learned about this book in "Scale" by Geoffrey West. Jane Jacob's classic lived up to West's high regard for her systems thinking about cities. Her book changed the way I look at a city.. Although it discusses situations from 70 years ago, the perspectives seem fresh and relevant now. If you're on a path to learn how cities function, this book adds fresh rays of light for understanding what is actually going on.
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- Marie
- 2014-11-13
Still good for thought
I attempted to read the dead tree version of this book and did not get far. I appreciate the narrator because it seemed a bit more accessible in an audible format. I will listen to it again but with a dead tree version close at hand because there are ideas that Jacobs mentions that I'd like to spend a bit more time thinking about before rolling on to the next thought.
I've read urban planning commentary that quotes or refers to this Jacobs book as if it were the Bible. Listening to it for myself, I wonder if this is the same author people bring up when they talk about historic preservation, because I got a completely different sense of what she was saying, which is why I need a paper version as well.
Another commenter mentioned the book is dated. Yes, it is, but is informative regarding big cities and the motivations of city administrators and politicians in regards to federal funds and the motivation to big build stupid projects that do nothing for the citizen on the ground. That is still going on, even though those same city administrators may claim a love for Jacob's ideas.
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- bennehoff
- 2019-05-17
A Great Classic on Cities and Planning
Everyone with even a passing interests in cities and how they function should check out this classic text by Jane Jacobs.
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- Michael Maloy
- 2019-03-22
Jane Jacobs Never Disappoints
This was my fifth reading of "Death and Life," and I continue to be amazed by the quality of Jane Jacobs's writing, research, and relevancy. Jane is simply brilliant! Donna Rawlins's narration is admirable and enjoyable to listen to. However, there are several mispronounced words that are quite surprising and rather disappointing, especially for a work of such importance. For example, the correct reading is "land uses"—comprised of two words—not "landuses" with an emphasis on the "d." There are no “deuces” in this book. Also, why does Ms. Rawlins pronounce the word “renaissance” with an emphasis on a long vowel "a"? As far as I know, no English speaking nation or region pronounces the word in this manner. These simple errors are beneath the author, the narrator, and the producer, and I highly encourage the publisher to correct these errors in a future edition (and soon).
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- Mark Mckittrick
- 2019-02-12
Amazing! Insightful and interesting.
The first few chapters on the phenomenon of cities and the final chapter are brilliant. Her policy prescriptions in the second half of the book are slightly dated given this book was written more than half a century ago. Jane's detailed description of this organized, complex adaptive system are beautiful.
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