E-audiobook
The death and life of great American cities
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307969668 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0307969665 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Edition: 50th anniversary ed.; Library ed.
- Publisher: Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Unabridged. Duration: 18:00:14. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Donna Rawlins. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 258758 KB; MP3 file size: 506881 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | City planning -- United States Urban renewal -- United States Urban policy -- United States |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities.
