598pp. Gray cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Unread copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has superficial wear. "Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable." Jane Jacobs was one of the leaders who opposed and stopped the building of the Lower Manhattan Expressway... View More...
598pp.Black cloth, silver lettering on the spine. Unread copy. Stated First Modern Library Edition, September 1969. Random House remainder stamp on the bottom edge Price-clipped pictorial jacket has a 1/4" closed tear on the upper left edge of the rear panel, otherwise like new in mylar sleeve. "Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic ... View More...
