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Jane Jacobs

JANE JACOBS was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies, and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.
Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview

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Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview

Live Inspired with Compendium: Now Available from PRH!

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