The Death And Life of Great American Cities.
"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody": First Edition of Jane Jacobs Magnum Opus; Inscribed in the Year of Publication by Her
The Death And Life of Great American Cities.
JACOBS, Jane.
Item Number: 3734
New York: Random House, 1961.
First edition of the author’s tour de force. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed in the year of publication by the author, “To Kenneth Hamilton with warmest regards, Sincerely, Jane Jacobs Nov. 1961.” Fine in an excellent near fine dust jacket. Rare signed.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments."
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