- Format
- Inbunden (Hardback)
- Språk
- Engelska
- Antal sidor
- 353
- Utgivningsdatum
- 2010-05-01
- Förlag
- New Village Press
- Medarbetare
- Elizabeth, Lynne
- Illustrationer
- 2 black and white illustrations
- Dimensioner
- 211 x 150 x 30 mm
- Vikt
- Antal komponenter
- 1
- Komponenter
- 457:B&W 5.5 x 8.5in or 216 x 140mm (Demy 8vo) Gray Cloth w/Jacket on White w/Matte Lam
- ISBN
- 9780981559315
- 613 g
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"I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing--no, her clear-headed observation--as I did reading What We See. Maybe that's really the point of writing. That if you take the time to look, to really observe, then you see what is happening, and, with the clarity of that vision, you can act to save neighborhoods." --Nancy Milford, scholar, lecturer, and author of Zelda and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Just in its title, 'What We See' telegraphs the most important point Jane Jacobs ever made--don't go into a city environment with preset notions of how things are supposed to work; instead, enter the space with as open a mind as you can muster and seek to observe how things actually work. . . What We See is a report back to Jane to tell her what we learned and how it has changed our cities and our lives." --Keith Bartholomew, Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Utah, coauthor, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change When Planetizen conducted a survey last year to identify the top urban thinkers of all time, the Number 1 spot on the list was captured by Jane Jacobs. Whether the choice was correct or not -- the poll's participants were disproportionately Americans -- Jacobs certainly remains an inspiration, four years after her death at age 89. --Philip Langdon"New Urban News" (08/16/2010) This book, with such a wide range of contributors inspired by the small woman with the large mind, can help us understand our world better, and thus be better at changing it. --Alex Marshall"Regional Plan Association" (12/07/2010) "This book is a passionate celebration: a delicious international and interdisciplinary banquet of offerings to honor the passionate and multifaceted work of our beloved urbanist, Jane Jacobs." --Wendy Sarkissian, PhD, author of Kitchen Table Sustainability and Creative Community Planning "In this new book are the testimonials of Jane's children. These folks, in their writing and work, are building on what she began back in the '60s. It's taken a long time, but it's happening." - David Byrne, musician, artist, and author of Bicycle Diaries Advance Praise for What We See "It's as if Jane Jacobs' bright eye hadn't dimmed, that she's still startling us with her predictably unpredictable insights into what needs to be done to protect and cultivate wondrous, live cities. In the hands of this book's essay writers, new thoughts sprout, all as true to Jane's spirit and inventive urbanity as the gardens (intellectual and physical) she cultivated in her lifetime." --Neal Peirce, Chairman, The Citistates Group, journalist, and author of Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age My blogs of late have told stories of walkability and overcoming complexity - ingredients of the safe and vital neighborhood. There are more and I've been reading about them in a great new book: What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (New Village Press, 2010). I'm not usually a fan of non-fiction anthologies which, having authored a crime prevention anthology myself, is probably just evidence of my own inconsistency. Regardless, What We See is an exception to my rule. It is a fabulous read! --Gregory Saville"Safegrowth" (05/26/2010) What We See is notable for the breadth of its contributors. Besides the predictable collection of architects, planners and politicians (not that there's anything wrong with them), perhaps the most interesting contributions are from people supposedly "outside her field" - the biologist, the youth minister, the playwright. Of course, the point is not much was outside Jacob's field, her lesson is not to search for the predictable but to see what is. --Dr. Orloff "Museum of the City.org " It is fruitless, however, to search for some dramatic key element or kingpin wh
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Stephen A. Goldsmith is an urban planner, artist, and scholar, whose wide-ranging projects find their grounding in the wisdom of Jane Jacobs. Lynne Elizabeth is founder and director of New Village Press. She is the past president of Architects/ Designers/ Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), a public-benefit educational organization founded in 1981 that works for peace, environmental protection, social justice, and development of healthy communities.