City Cannot Be a Work of Art

Sanford Ikeda is Professor Emeritus at Purchase College, The State University of New York, a fellow of the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economics Processes at New York University, and serves on the boards of The Economic Freedom Institute, Cosmos+Taxis, and The Center for the Living City. He is the author of Dynamics of the Mixed Economy (1997). His research focuses on the interconnections among cities, spontaneous social orders, entrepreneurial development, and urban policy.

• Chapter 1.  Introduction.- Chapter 2.  The Continuing Relevance of Jane Jacobs’s Economics and Social Theory.- Chapter 3. A City Is Not a Man-Made Thing.- Chapter 4.  The Paradox of Urban Diversity and Cohesion.- Chapter 5.  Social Networks and Action Space in Cities.- Chapter 6.  The Life and Death of Cities.- Chapter 7.  A Living City is Messy (and What Not to Do About It).- Chapter 8.  Fixing Cities.- Chapter 9.  Cities of the Future.- Chapter 10.  Coda.