Staden har blivit het. Vi lever nu i en stadsrenässansens era. Därmed inte sagt att de urbana kvaliteterna blivit fler i våra städer, utan snarare att sensibiliteten för staden och dess möjligheter går att finna hos allt fler. Jane Jacobs klassiker…
A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.
Mänskligheten står inför ett vägval. Ska vi fortsätta tro på orsak och verkan och blunda för de senaste rönen inom kvantfysik som talar om för oss att vi är skapare av vår egen verklighet? Vi människor består av möjligheter, inte av något bestämt. S…
In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Usi…
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who…
The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those…
This is the definitive book on urban planning and the development of the city from one of the 20th Century's greatest minds.A wealth of material packaged in a stylish and comprehensive way.Accompanied by a new Preface by Will Self targeting an Engli…
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and…
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.
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we're at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of…
Engelsk-Dansk/Dansk-Engelsk Mediumordbog på cd-rom i gaveæske. Den elektroniske udgave af Engelsk-Dansk/Dansk-Engelsk Ordbog i serien Gyldendals Mediumordbøger. Cd-rommen leveres i en flot gaveæske med en smart specialsyet s…
In this, her third and least-known book, first published in 1980, Jane Jacobs examines not only the particular question of Quebec and Canada, but also the larger issue of sovereignty and autonomy in general. Using Norway as a model, Jacobs details t…
Engelsk-Dansk/Dansk-Engelsk Mediumordbog på cd-rom Den elektroniske udgave af Engelsk-Dansk/Dansk-Engelsk Ordbog i serien Gyldendals Mediumordbøger. Med Gyldendals Mediumordbog på cd-rom bliver du hurtigt bedre til at skrive p&ari…
Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. From London, the one-time heart of the empire, to…
How can contemporary theories of difference enhance our understanding of traditional urban studies concerns such as housing, labor markets, and structures of state entitlement? What are the connections between urban space and identity politics? This…
Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is as…
"Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or final authority." --The New York Sun Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "perhaps the single most influe…
For this fifth volume in the Four Corners Familiars series, in which artists respond to literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen (born 1975) has chosen four absolute masterpieces of short fiction: Jane Bowles' "A Stick of Gr…
This book offers dozens of creative ways to prepare one of the Atlantic's most delicious--and most abundant--fish. It includes easy, kitchen-tested recipes for chowders, salads, fish cakes, sandwiches, fritters, soups, and even a pate. Old standards…
Cincuenta a os despu s de su publicaci n, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades es, seg n el New York Times, probablemente la obra m s influyente en la historia de la planificaci n urbana . Jane Jacobs, columnista y cr tica de arquitectura en Nueva…
2016 New editorship Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, G nther Fischer, Angelika Schnell Not unjustly referred to as legendary, this series of books on the history and theory of architecture and urban development was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Conrads,…
From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy. Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of n…
