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THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers.
THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. Operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, but with a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers.
THE ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs.
At the commissary ("We've got a nice Valley of the Dolls Salad," suggests the waitress), the Hollywood types are naively shocked when told they will have to pay $2,500 for a week's display of Dr. Dolittle record albums in the windows of a Manhattan store...
Despite such simplistic assumptions, Jane Jacobs succeeds as usual. Shining through every page of her book is a boundless and infectious conviction that the city is the best and noblest product of man. In one remarkable chapter she even goes so far as to reverse the traditional assumption that the...