Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations - Brossura

“Some of the most striking insights and advisories from the essential urban visionary.” —CityLab

"This collection of four lively exchanges with Jacobs, the doyenne of urban planning, encompasses the boon of sharpened reflections on those topics that were her focus and novel thoughts on those that were not." —Publishers Weekly

Praise for Jane Jacobs

“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
 
“One of the most trenchant observers and challenging critics of American culture and character.” —The Christian Science Monitor
 
“There’s no writer more lucid than Jane Jacobs, nobody better at using wide-open eyes and clean courtly prose to decipher the changing world around us. . . . It’s a tribute to Jacobs that her observations still resonate, succinct yet dead on.” —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“It’s hard to disagree with Jane Jacobs.” —Washington Post

JANE JACOBS was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works includeThe Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies, andDark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.