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MACAT解读系列 对简·雅各布斯的《美国大城市的死与生》的分析

An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's the Death and Life of Great American Cities

Author: Martin Fuller,Ryan Moore

Paperback: 98 pages

Publisher: Macat Library; 1 edition (15 July 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1912128594

ISBN-13: 978-1912128594

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm

内容简介

Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there.

By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion, that urban planners ruin great cities, because they don’t understand that it is a city’s social interaction that makes it great. Proposals and policies that are drawn from planning theory do not consider the social dynamics of city life.

They are in thrall to futuristic fantasies of a modern way of living that bears no relation to reality, or to the desires of real people living in real spaces. Professionals lobby for separation and standardization, splitting commercial, residential, industrial, and cultural spaces. But a truly visionary approach to urban planning should incorporate spaces with mixed uses, together with short, walkable blocks, large concentrations of people, and a mix of new and old buildings. This creates true urban vitality.

作者简介

Dr Martin Fullerholds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge for research that focused on the Sociology of Art in New York and Berlin. He is currently a researcher at the Technische Universität, Berlin.

Dr Ryan Mooreholds PhDs in Sociology and Cultural Analysis from the University of California, San Diego. He has taught at universities across America and is the author of Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (New York: NYU Press, 2009).

Martin Fuller，剑桥大学社会学博士，专注于纽约和柏林的艺术社会学。现任柏林科技大学的研究员。

Ryan Moore，加州大学圣地亚哥分校社会学和文化分析博士。

他曾在美国各地的大学任教，是《青少年精神：音乐，青年文化与社会危机》（纽约：纽约大学出版社，29）的作者。

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