Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary (book cover)

is a new book just out, that we all have to read.

From the book description:

Based on a rich array of interviews and primary source material, this book brings long-overdue attention to Jacobs’s far-reaching influence as an original and prescient thinker. According to Jane Jacobs, "there is almost nothing you can think of that cities don’t provide some insight into." In page after page, we discover that there is also much about cities today that we owe to the insights and work of Jane Jacobs.

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