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.
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.
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…
From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American CitiesNo 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 Lif…
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…
Now that she's been knitting up a storm with the help of her new friends at House of Lambspun, Kelly Flynn can't imagine ever leaving Fort Connor, Colorado. But there's trouble in her adopted hometown-and not just with her new sweater project . . .…
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…
Frankie Byrne has returned from the war in Iraq to a war in her San Diego home. More than anything, Frankie wants to regain the closeness she once shared with her husband and daughter, but it feels like they've created a new life without her. She do…
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…
Kelly and Megan could not be happier for their friend Allison Dubois-a young, talented, up-and-coming artist. Invited by a designer to join her New York studio, Allison is about to embark on a new life. But when Kelly and Megan arrive at Allison's a…
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…
"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…
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…
