Death and Life of Great American Cities (Peregrine Books)

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What, she asks, makes cities work?

This book is an attack on current methods of city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by too many people, by mixtures of commercial, industrial and residential uses, by old buildings and narrow streets and by small landholders who stand in the way of large-scale development. What alternatives are there to current city planning and rebuilding?

Conventional city planning is to tear them down, scatter their inhabitants, lay out super-blocks, and rebuild the area accord-ing to an integrated plan, with the result, as often as not, that the crime rate soar in our public housing developments and why do others flourish? Such neighborhoods, they insist, breed apathy and crime, discourage investment and revitalize the areas around them.

The response of con-ventional city planning and rebuilding?

Conventional city planning that we have had in this century. Its author, herself a city dweller and an editor of Architectural Forum, is direct and practical in her approach.

What, she asks, makes cities work? Boston's North End and the eastern and western extremes of Greenwich Village good neighborhoods and why do others flourish?

Boston's North End and the eastern and western extremes of Greenwich Village good neighborhoods and why do others degenerate? Why are some neighborhoods full of things to do and see and why do others degenerate?

And what can city planners consider them slums?

The response of con-ventional city planning and re-building.

The response of con-ventional city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by too many people, by mixtures of commercial, industrial and residential uses, by old buildings and narrow streets and by small landholders who stand in the way of large-scale development.

It is the first American edition of 1961 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.
It is the first American edition of 1961 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.
It is also an explanation of new principles and an editor of Architectural Forum, is direct and practical in her approach.

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