The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Nonfiction work
By: Jane Jacobs
Date: 1961
Source: Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
About the Author: Jane Jacobs (1916–) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a doctor and a school-teacher. After working briefly as a reporter for the Scranton Tribune, Jacobs went to New York City to work as a writer. She took a job with Architectural Forum magazine in 1952, beginning her decades-long study of urban architecture and planning. After denouncing some of the major U.S. architects and their widely accepted views on urban planning in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs immigrated to Toronto, Canada, in the late 1960s with her husband and three children.
Introduction
When Jacobs went to work for Architectural Forum in 1952, her...
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