false 17285 30833 0375508732 9780375508738 219 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168135326m/30833.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30833.The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities 4.32 1228 Architectural Forum, is direct and practical in her approach. What, she asks, makes cities work? Why are some neighborhoods full of things to do and see and why are others dull? Why does the crime rate soar in our public housing developments and why are some of our older neighborhoods, despite their evident pov-erty, so much more safe, stable and congenial? Why do some neighborhoods attract interested and responsible populations and why do others degenerate? Why are Boston's North End and the eastern and western extremes of Greenwich Village good neighborhoods and why do orthodox city planners consider them slums? What alternatives are there to current city planning and rebuilding?

Conventional city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by too many people, by mixtures of commercial, industrial and residential uses, by old buildings and narrow streets and by small landholders who stand in the way of large-scale development. Such neighborhoods, they insist, breed apathy and crime, discourage investment and contaminate the areas around them. The response of con-ventional city planning is to tear them down, scatter their inhabitants, lay out super-blocks, and rebuild the area accord-ing to an integrated plan, with the result, as often as not, that the crime rate rises still higher, the new neighborhood is more lifeless than the old one, and the surrounding areas deteriorate even more, until the life of the whole city is threatened.

But Mrs. Jacobs observes that in any number of cases these very conditions--mixed uses, dense population, old buildings, small blocks, decentralized ownership--create the very opposite of slums, neighborhoods that regenerate themselves spontaneously, that are full of variety and diversity, that attract large numbers of casual visitors and responsible new residents, that encourage investment and revitalize the areas around them. Boston's North End (condemned as a slum by or-thodox planners) is such a neighborhood, and so is Greenwich Village. Rittenhouse Square and Telegraph Hill are others. Nearly every large city can produce still other examples.

Why then do some city neighborhoods die and why do others flourish? And what can city planners do to avoid the death and encourage the life of our great American cities? The solutions proposed by Mrs. Jacobs in this book represent a sharp break with conventional thinking on the subject and they carry with them the ring of simple truth which marks this book as an inevitable classic of social thought.

This edition is set from the first American edition of 1961 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 85397 1400076706 9781400076703 30 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059794m/85397.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85397.Dark_Age_Ahead 3.51 154 The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation, and government; and the self-regulation of the learned professions. The corrosion of these pillars, Jacobs argues, is linked to societal ills such as environmental crisis, racism, and the growing gulf between rich and poor.

But this is a hopeful book as well as a warning. Drawing on her vast frame of reference–from fifteenth-century Chinese shipbuilding to Ireland’s cultural rebirth–Jacobs suggests how the cycles of decay can be arrested and our way of life renewed. Invigorating and accessible, Dark Age Ahead is not only the crowning achievement of Jane Jacobs’ career, but one of the most important works of our time.]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 5729528 1602529388 9781602529380 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5729528.The_Witch_Family_Library_Edition 0.0 0 </div>]]> 23821 3.94 4417 696 17285 4.17 2036 368 85398 039470584X 9780394705842 21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059794m/85398.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85398.The_Economy_of_Cities 3.95 111 17285 4.17 2036 368 85401 0394729110 9780394729114 13 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059795m/85401.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85401.Cities_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations 4.00 75 New York Times Book Review

"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."—Los Angeles Times

"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating experience."—New York Times]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 85400 0375702431 9780375702433 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059795m/85400.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85400.The_Nature_of_Economies 3.73 59 The Nature of Economies, continues this artistic and provocative tradition by dissecting relationships between economics and ecology through a multilayered discourse around the fundamental premise that "human beings exist wholly within nature as part of a natural order." In a style reminiscent of the cinematic My Dinner with Andre, Jacobs gives us a captivating ongoing conversation between five contemporary New Yorkers who sip coffee and voice accepted, fact-based theories along with subjective but solid opinions regarding the way our society's fractal-like development is actually dependent upon "the same universal principles that the rest of nature uses." Digressing onto various and sundry paths as such dialogues always do--albeit, this time, on a very specific and methodical route as prescribed by Jacobs--the characters mull over business cycles, animal husbandry, habitat destruction, the implications of standardization and monopoly, competition in nature, the obsolescence of computers, and much, much more. This book is recommended for the eclectically curious who welcome the opportunity to eavesdrop on such stimulating table talk, even while lamenting the fact they can't join in. --Howard Rothman ]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 85403 0679748164 9780679748168 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223647209m/85403.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85403.Systems_of_Survival_A_Dialogue_on_the_Moral_Foundations_of_Commerce_and_Politics 3.90 31 17285 4.17 2036 368 2375110 0394224760 9780394224763 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2375110.A_Schoolteacher_in_Old_Alaska_The_Story_of_Hannah_Breece 0.0 0
In 1904, Hannah Breece set off for Alaska, where she was sent by the American government to teach Aleuts, Dina'ina, Athabascans, and people of mixed-European and Native blood.  She remained in Alaska until 1918 and in this book tells her story.  Diary-like in is mingling of domestic matters, work, public events and chance encounters, Hannah Breece's narrative is spiced with litany of adventures, for she was a women who went anywhere and stood up to anybody.

What Hannah Breece could never have guessed was just how relevant her story is today, both in its study of an independent woman and in its early clues to white North America's treatment of the Native populations.  In her introduction and comprehensive notes on the book, Jane Jacobs examines her great aunt's story and reveals and illuminates the mysteries behind this most unusual life.]]> 258277 4.00 20 6 17285 4.17 2036 368 6497838 0786148950 9780786148950 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6497838-liberation-movements 0.0 0  The year is 1975, and one of the People’s Militia homicide investigators is on a plane out of the capital, bound for Istanbul. The plane is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, but before the Turkish authorities can fulfill their demands, the plane explodes in midair.
 Two investigators---Gavra Noukas, a secret policeman, and Katja Drdova, a homicide detective---are assigned to the case. Both believe that Brano Sev, their enigmatic superior and himself a career secret policeman, is keeping them in the dark both about the details of the case and all its players and about the true motives of their investigation, but they can’t figure out why. That is, until they learn that everything is connected to a seven-year-old murder, a seemingly insignificant murder that has had far-reaching consequences.
 The politics and history for which Olen Steinhauer’s novels have been most praised turn intimate and highly compelling in this ambitious new novel. </DIV>]]> 327983 3.67 506 153 2942212 0.0 0 0 258439 3.50 4 3 567407 3.50 22 7 17285 4.17 2036 368 1471846 0679308180 9780679308188 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183947147m/1471846.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1471846.A_School_Teacher_In_Old_Alaska_The_Story_Of_Hannah_Breece 3.67 21
In 1904, Hannah Breece set off for Alaska, where she was sent by the American government to teach Aleuts, Dina'ina, Athabascans, and people of mixed-European and Native blood.  She remained in Alaska until 1918 and in this book tells her story.  Diary-like in is mingling of domestic matters, work, public events and chance encounters, Hannah Breece's narrative is spiced with litany of adventures, for she was a women who went anywhere and stood up to anybody.

What Hannah Breece could never have guessed was just how relevant her story is today, both in its study of an independent woman and in its early clues to white North America's treatment of the Native populations.  In her introduction and comprehensive notes on the book, Jane Jacobs examines her great aunt's story and reveals and illuminates the mysteries behind this most unusual life.]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 2094394 0887842178 9780887842177 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255911534m/2094394.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2094394.The_Lost_Massey_Lectures_Recovered_Classics_from_Five_Great_Thinkers 3.25 4 Now, at last, a selection of these lost lectures is available to a world hungry for innovative ideas. Each lecturer addresses a subject at the heart of his or her concerns: Martin Luther King Jr. on racial prejudice & nonviolent civil disobedience, John Kenneth Galbraith on economics & poverty, Jane Jacobs on Canadian cities & Quebec separatism, Paul Goodman on the moral ambiguity of America & Eric Kierans on globalization & the nation-state.
Their words are not only historically significant but remain strikingly relevant to the problems we face today.]]> 474397 3.50 6 1 2937 3.79 136 20 17285 4.17 2036 368 23458 3.82 797 183 23924 4.46 1585 236 3156285 3.25 4 0 657939 0394509811 9780394509815 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657939.A_Question_of_Separatism 4.33 3 17285 4.17 2036 368 657949 0522848168 9780522848168 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176835030m/657949.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657949.Uncanny_Australia_Sacredness_and_Identity_in_a_Postcolonial_Nation 5.00 1 Uncanny Australia is a challenging and thought-provoking work that offers a new way of understanding how the sacred haunts the modern through the effect of the uncanny.

]]> 169361 4.04 23 3 17285 4.17 2036 368 657950 0921773501 9780921773504 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657950.Toronto_Considering_Self_government 0.0 0 17285 4.17 2036 368 2424415 0.0 0 0 657951 0887940870 9780887940873 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657951.Canadian_cities_and_sovereignty_association 0.0 0 17285 4.17 2036 368 657946 0195407083 9780195407082 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657946.Girl_on_the_Hat 0.0 0 17285 4.17 2036 368 6586294 2764603584 9782764603581 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586294-retour-l-ge-des-t-n-bres 0.0 0 Informations supplémentaires : 15/07/2005]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 6883249 0394480473 9780394480473 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6883249-cities-and-the-wealth-of-nations 0.0 0 New York Times Book Review

"Jacobs' book is inspired, idiosyncratic and personal...It is written with verve and humor; for a work of embattled theory, it is wonderfully concrete, and its leaps are breathtaking."—Los Angeles Times

"Not only comprehensible but entertaining...Like Mrs. Jacobs' other books, it offers a concrete approach to an abstract and elusive subject. That, all by itself, makes for an intoxicating experience."—New York Times]]> 17285 4.17 2036 368 1586592 0195535669 9780195535662 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185509664m/1586592.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1586592.Placebound_Australian_Feminist_Geographies 0.0 0 736559 4.50 2 0 17285 4.17 2036 368 736558 4.60 5 2 233803 0968755542 9780968755549 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233803.Brick_A_Literary_Journal 0.0 0 15128 3.75 7275 1049 39155 4.40 1258 86 24390 4.08 4477 461 17285 4.17 2036 368 5739954 1598952005 9781598952001 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5739954.The_Curious_Adventures_of_Jimmy_Mcgee_and_Miranda_the_Great_Library_Edition 0.0 0 23821 3.94 4417 696 2566744 3.50 4 1 17285 4.17 2036 368 7303143 0786171057 9780786171057 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7303143-liberation-movements 0.0 0  The year is 1975, and one of the People’s Militia homicide investigators is on a plane out of the capital, bound for Istanbul. The plane is hijacked by Armenian terrorists, but before the Turkish authorities can fulfill their demands, the plane explodes in midair.
 Two investigators---Gavra Noukas, a secret policeman, and Katja Drdova, a homicide detective---are assigned to the case. Both believe that Brano Sev, their enigmatic superior and himself a career secret policeman, is keeping them in the dark both about the details of the case and all its players and about the true motives of their investigation, but they can’t figure out why. That is, until they learn that everything is connected to a seven-year-old murder, a seemingly insignificant murder that has had far-reaching consequences.
 The politics and history for which Olen Steinhauer’s novels have been most praised turn intimate and highly compelling in this ambitious new novel. </DIV>]]> 327983 3.67 506 153 2942212 0.0 0 0 258439 3.50 4 3 567407 3.50 22 7 17285 4.17 2036 368