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Jane Jacobs
Author profile
born
in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The United States
May 04, 1916
died
April 25, 2006
gender
female
genre
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
— published 1961 — 21 editions |
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The Economy of Cities
— published 1969 — 5 editions |
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Dark Age Ahead
— published 2004 — 10 editions |
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations
— published 1984 — 4 editions |
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The Nature of Economies
— published 2000 — 13 editions |
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Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
— 3 editions |
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A School Teacher In Old Alaska: The Story Of Hannah Breece
— published 1997 — 2 editions |
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The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers
by Jane Jacobs , Paul Goodman, John Kenneth Galbraith — published 2007 — 3 editions |
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A Question of Separatism
— published 1980 — 3 editions |
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Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City
— published 1996 — 4 editions |
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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
― Jane Jacobs
― Jane Jacobs
“Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
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