An edition of Vital little plans
(2016)
Vital little plans
the short works of Jane Jacobs
First edition.
by Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp, Nathan Storring, and Will Self
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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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Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
2017, Short Books, Limited
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Vital little plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-468) and index.
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