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Author:
Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, 1951-
Title:
Jane Jacobs : urban visionary / Alice Sparberg Alexiou.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
x, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Jacobs, Jane,--1916-2006
City planners--Biography.
Women city planners--Biography.
Sociology, Urban
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From Scranton to New York -- Urban blight -- Urban renewal -- The housewife with no college degree -- The death and life of great American cities -- The West Village and Lomex battles -- More battles -- Race, gentrification, and the South Bronx -- Toronto -- Economist without portfolio -- The quintessential American -- Notes.
ISBN:
9780813537924
0813537924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)61278502
LCCN:
2005023067
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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