Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary
by
Dirk Schubert
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide,...