The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) by Jacobs, Jane - 1993

New York: Modern Library, 1993. 598pp. Gray cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Unread copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has superficial wear. "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. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable." Jane Jacobs was one of the leaders who opposed and stopped the building of the Lower Manhattan Expressway which would have cut through Greenwich Village.. 11th Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.