Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Informationen zum Autor Max Page is Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts Timothy Mennel is senior editor and acquisitions manager at the American Planning Association" Klappentext Reconsidering Jane Jacobs gives this important thinker the respect she deserves! reminding planning professionals of the full range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning today. It also looks at the international relevance--or lack thereof--of her work! with essays on urbanism in Abu Dhabi! Argentina! China! the Netherlands! and elsewhere. Contributors include a range of urbanists! planners! and scholars! including Thomas Campanella! Jill M. Grant! Richard Harris! Nathan Cherry! Peter Laurence! Jane M. Jacobs! and others. Zusammenfassung This book gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range and complexity of the author's ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of the author's ideas on cities and planning today. It also looks at the international relevance – or Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: More Than Meets the Eye Max Page 2. The Unknown Jane Jacobs: Geographer, Propagandist, City Planning Idealist Peter L. Laurence 3. An Australian Jane Jacobs Jane M. Jacobs 4. The Literary Craft of Jane Jacobs Jamin Creed Rowan 5. Urban Warfare: The Battles for Buenos Aires Sergio Kiernan 6. The Magpie and the Bee: Jane Jacobs' Magnificent Obsession Richard Harris 7. Jane Jacobs in Dutch Cities and Towns: Metropolitan Romance in Provincial Reality Gert-Jan Hospers 8. Time, Scale, and Control: How New Urbanism (Mis)Uses Jane Jacobs Jill L. Grant 9. Planning the Modern Arab City: The Case of Abu Dhabi Rudayna Abdo, AICP, and Geoffrey M. Batzel, AICP 10. Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community Is ( Timothy Mennel ) 11. A Chinese Perspective Nathan Cherry, AICP 12. Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning Thomas J. Campanella ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Max (University of Massachusetts - Amherst Page, Max Mennel Page
• Mitarbeit: Timothy Mennel (Herausgeber), Timothy (American Planning Association Mennel (Herausgeber), Mennel Timothy (Herausgeber), Max Page (Herausgeber), Max (University of Massachusetts - Amherst Page (Herausgeber), Page Max (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9781932364958
• ISBN: 978-1-932364-95-8
• Seiten: 208
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Stadt-, Raum- und Landschaftsplanung; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy