![]() ![]() Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid 'scientific' plans and endless acres of grass. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. ![]() In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. Jacobs has a powerful sense of narrative, a lively wit, a talent for surprise and the ability to touch the emotions as well as the mind' New York Times Book Review 'Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. ![]()
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