Death And Life Of Great American Cities, The Av Jane Jacobs

<P>Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement...

<b>Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.</b><p>Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have “life.” And the architect,...