Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, 1951-

Title Jane Jacobs : urban visionary / Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Published New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2006]
©2006

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  307.1216092 Jacobs Ale/Jjv  AVAILABLE
Description x, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scranton, Pennsylvania -- New York City -- Urban renewal -- The housewife with no college degree -- The death and life of great American cities -- Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village activist, part one -- Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village activist, part two -- Jane Jacobs, race, and gentrification: an assessment -- Toronto the good -- Economist without portfolio -- Conclusions about Jane Jacobs -- Notes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index
Subject Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
City planners -- Biography.
Women city planners -- Biography.
Sociology, Urban.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2005023067
ISBN 0813537924
9780813537924 hardcover alkaline paper