Jacobs, Jane. The Death and
Life of Great American Cities.
New York
8vo.;
black cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt; a few marks to top edge of pages printed
dust-jacket; faint tanning to edges of dust-jacket and along spine; price-clipped.
Near Fine.
First
edition. A very handsome copy of Jacobs’ classic study of cities and urban
planning. The influence of this book is still being felt. Jacobs’ critique of hyper
rational modernist city planning is credited by many with turning the tide against the worst excesses of “urban renewal” (and, not incidentally, with saving Greenwich Village from Robert Moses).
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