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- Title
- Block by block : Jane Jacobs and the future of New York / edited by Timothy Mennel, Jo Steffens & Christopher Klemek.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Municipal Art Society of New York, c2007.
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- Description
- 64 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Jane Jacobs and the future of New York
- Subject
- Note
- Published to accompany an exhibition, Jane Jacobs and the future of New York, held at the Municipal Art Society of New York.
- Bibliography (note)
- "Jane Jacobs bibliography": p. 62.
- Contents
- Foreword / Judith Rodin -- From "Cities and songs" / Adam Gopnik -- Sounds of New York City from Harlem, 116th & 7th Ave / Quincy Troupe -- Jane Jacobs and the future of New York / Christopher Klemek -- Commemoration / Paul Goldberger -- From "Jane Jacobs revisited" / Karrie Jacobs -- The nature of cities / Christopher Alexander -- A new urbanist's view of Jane Jacobs / John Norquest -- The death and life of great American towns / Michael McDonough -- Big sky over Gowanus / Phillip Lopate -- Jane Jacobs, pragmatist / Joan Ockman -- This is the time when beautiful girls ... / Thomas de Monchaux -- Pathological urbanity / Tama Janowitz -- Art's sake / Tom Wolfe -- Nature morte / Jesse Reiser -- From "The colossus of New York" / Colson Whitehead -- From "My lost city" / Luc Sante -- From "Analogue" / Zoe Leonard -- Toward that better city / Robert Neuwirth -- Not good, but well behaved ... / Marshall Brown -- Community vision / Majora Carter -- The perks of the city / Allison Arieff -- Goner Pillow Company / Ben Katchor -- Chow of the city / David McAninch -- How do we shout? / Reverend Billy -- New ideas require old buildings / Lisa Rochon -- Jacobs omnibus / Damon Rich -- The glory of Harlem / Michael Henry Adams -- Musing on the city / Carlton Brown -- Light-years ahead / Roberta Brandes Gratz -- Where I live / Yvonne Durant -- A personal reflection / Ron Shiffman -- From "It happens every day" / Marshall Berman -- History's angel / Nathan Glazer -- Local cities, global problems / Andrew Blum -- Meeting Jane Jacobs / David Grahame Shane -- The nature of economics / Saskia Sassen -- From "Gothamitis" / Adam Gopnik -- From " Designs for working" / Malcolm Gladwell -- The city I love / Tony Goldman -- Mother Jacob's home recipe -- Jane Jacobs bibliography -- First we kill the architects / Danny Lyon.
- ISBN
- 1568987714 (pbk.) :
- 9781568987712
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library