The Death and Life of Great American Cities
New York: Random House, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo., 458 pp. Fourth print. Jacket design by Sam Marsh. A seminal critique of mid-century 'rationalist' planning by the writer and activist Jane Jacobs, who has come to be regarded as the patron saint of humanist urban planning and architectural preservation and for her opposition to Robert Moses and his lower Manhattan expressway. Near Fine in a near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of handling. Item #619202605
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