The death and life of great American cities /
Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the human...
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| Format: | CD Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Audio : Books on Tape,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 50th anniversary ed. |
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| Summary: | Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. |
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| Item Description: | Unabridged. Compact discs. Sound recording. |
| Physical Description: | 14 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: | 9780307969897 0307969894 |