hough published almost sixty years ago, urbanist Jane Jacobs's 1961 Death and Life of Great Ameri... more hough published almost sixty years ago, urbanist Jane Jacobs's 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities continues to grow in conceptual and pragmatic significance. 2 One can safely say that this book-a remarkably perceptive picture of how cities work-is one of the great twentieth-century explications of urban life, continuing to have profound theoretical and practical significance for urban policy, planning, design, and thinking. 3 In the last decade, a productive interdisciplinary field of "Jacobsean" studies has developed, and many articles, books, and edited collections have been published that discuss Jacobs's life and work. 4
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