Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345803337ISBN-10:345803337UPC:9780345803337Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Public Policy, United StatesBook Topic:City Planning & Urban Development, 20th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQ0Q1PA56
The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.
Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates--all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses's proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780345803337ISBN-10:345803337UPC:9780345803337Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Public Policy, United StatesBook Topic:City Planning & Urban Development, 20th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCQ0Q1PA56
ROBERT KANIGEL is the author of seven previous books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for science writing. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For twelve years he was a professor of science writing at M.I.T. He and his wife now live in Baltimore, Maryland, and he writes full time.
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