Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs /
A survey of Jacobs's career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume: essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures, covering her work in urban and economic planning as well as globalization, feminism, and universal health care.
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: A city naturalist, 1934-1952
- While arranging verses for a book
- Diamonds in the tough
- Flowers come to town
- Caution, men working
- 30,000 unemployed and 7,000 empty houses in Scranton, neglected city
- Islands the boats pass by
- No virtue in meek conformity
- Part two: City building, 1952-1965
- Philadelphia's redevelopment: a progress report
- Pavement pounders and Olympians
- The missing link in city redevelopment
- Our "surplus" land
- Reason, emotion, pressure: there is no other recipe
- Metropolitan government
- Downtown is for people
- A living network of relationships
- A great unbalance
- The decline of function
- Part three: How new work begins, 1965-1984
- The self-generating growth of cities
- On civil disobedience
- Strategies for helping cities
- A city getting hooked on the expressway drug
- The real problem of cities
- Can big plans solve the problem of renewal?
- Part four: The ecology of cities, 1984-2000
- The responsibilities of cities
- Pedaling together
- Foreword to The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Two ways to live
- First letter to the Consumer Policy Institute
- Women as natural entrepreneurs
- Market nurturing run amok
- Against amalgamation
- Part five: Some patterns of future development, 2000-2006
- Time and change as neighborhood allies
- Canada's hub cities
- Efficiency and the commons
- The sparrow principle
- Uncovering the economy: a new hypothesis
- The end of the plantation age.