Becoming Jane Jacobs

Peter L. Laurence is Associate Professor of Architecture at Clemson University School of Architecture.

List of contents

Introduction. The Unknown Jane Jacobs

Chapter 1. To the City

Chapter 2. The Education of a City Naturalist

Chapter 3. "We Inaugurate Architectural Criticism"

Chapter 4. Advocating the "City-Planner Approach"

Chapter 5. "Seeds of Self-Regeneration" for City Deserts

Chapter 6. Urban Sprawl, Urban Design, and Urban Renewal

Chapter 7. A New System of Thought

Conclusion. A Vita Activa and Contemplativa

Sources and Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

By Peter L. Laurence

Summary

In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional writer with deep knowledge about the renewal and dynamics of American cities.

Product details

• Authors: Peter L Laurence, Peter L. Laurence
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780812224429
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2442-9
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Arts and Intellectual Life in; The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America; Arts and Intellectual Life in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning