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Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

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Titre

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Sujet

Jacobs Jane, Page Max, Mennel Thomas, aménagement urbain, renouvellement urbain, logement, new urbanism, nouvel urbanisme, histoire de l'urbanisme, voisinage

Description

Abstract from the publisher :
 
Fifty years after the publication of her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs is perhaps the most widely read urbanist ever. Her ideas contributed to the wholesale reevaluation of the tenets of contemporary planning: urban renewal, public housing, highways, and zoning. It is hard to imagine the renewed appreciation of neighborhood life, the rejection of urban renewal and public housing complexes, and the rise of the new urbanist movement without Jane Jacobs. It may be hard to imagine gated communities, gentrification, and the Disneyfication of urban centers without her as well.

This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of Jane Jacobs on cities and planning is that she has for much of the past five decades been "Saint Jane," the "housewife" who upended urban renewal and gave us back our cities. Over time, she has become a saintly stick figure, a font of simple wisdom for urban health that allows many to recite her ideas and few to understand their complexity. She has been the victim of her own success.

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning today. It also looks at the international relevance — or lack thereof — of her work, with essays on urbanism in Abu Dhabi, Argentina, China, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.
 
Contents :
 
Max Page - Introduction : More than meets the eye
Peter L. Laurence - The unknown Jane Jacobs : Geographer, propagandist, city planning idealist Jane M. Jacobs - An Australian Jane Jacobs Jamin Creed Rowan - The literary craft of Jane Jacobs Sergio Kiernan - Urban warfare : The battles for Buenos Aires Richard Harris - The magpie and the bee : Jane Jacobs's magnificent obsession Gert-Jan Hospers - Jane Jacobs in Dutch cities and towns : Metropolitan romance in provincial reality Jill L. Grant - Time, scale, and control : How new urbanism (mis)uses Jane Jacobs Rudanya Abdo and Geoffrey M. Batzel - Planning the modern Arab city : The case of Abu Dhabi Timonty Mennel - Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the kind of problem a community is Nathan Cherry - A Chinese perspective Thomas J. Campanella - Jane Jacobs and the death and life of American planning  

Créateur

NC

Éditeur

APA Planners Press

Date

June 2011

Format

200

Type

Ouvrage