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Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs / edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.

by Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.

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Random House Canada, 2016.

Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.

City planning -- United States.

Sociology, Urban -- United States.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban policy -- United States.

9780345812001 (hc.)

xliii, 490 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Scanton, Neglected City -- Islands the boats pass by -- No virtue in meek conformity -- 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 -- 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? -- The responsibilities of cities -- Pedaling together -- Foreword to The death and life of great American cities -- Two ways to live : interview with David Warren -- First letter to the Consumer Policy Institute -- Women as natural entrepreneurs -- Market nurturing run amok -- Against amalgamation -- Time and change as neighborhood allies -- Canada's hub cities -- Efficience and the Commons : conversation with Janice Gross Stein -- The sparrow principle -- Uncovering the economy: a new hypothesis -- The end of the Plantation Age.

"A selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by influential urban planner Jane Jacobs, shedding light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities, while expanding upon familiar themes with new insights. Topics include skyscrapers to feminism to universal health care to gentrification. Readers will find classics like her breakout article "Downtown Is for People" and a host of previously unpublished or obscure articles, speeches, and lectures that follow her entire career, from her early journalistic investigations into the specialty industries of New York City and the neighbourhoods that harboured them, to her critiques of the urban renewal regime, to her iconoclastic takes on economics, separatism, regulation, and the environment. It reveals Jacobs as she herself wished to be understood: as a writer who tried to observe human life as closely as she could. The book showcases the rhythm of Jacobs' career. "A City Naturalist" collects articles from her early years in New York, where she honed her distinctive style and her interest in the commercial and everyday life of cities. "City Building" critiques contemporary architecture, city planning and urban renewal. In "How New Work Begins," she explores the economic foundations of flourishing city life, and the environmental and political implications of city growth. "The Ecology of Cities" weaves ethics, government regulation and social justice into her system of thought, and gives her integrated approach a name: "the ecology of cities." In "The Unfinished Business of Jane Jacobs," she revisits ideas from throughout her career in the context of current challenges, and turns her gaze to the uncertain future of human life."--Provided by publisher.

Storring, Nathan.

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