The Death And Life Of Great American Cities - 9781912128594

American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she became a journalist, writing for magazines including Architectural Forum and Fortune. As a resident of Lower Manhattan's Greenwich Village, she joined a grassroots movement in the late 1950s to save her neighborhood from its planned destruction to make way for new expressways.

Author: Martin Fuller, Ryan Moore

Publisher: Macat Library

Publication Date: Jul 15, 2017

Number of Pages: 98 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1912128594

ISBN-13: 9781912128594