Description
The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.
Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates--all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses's proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.Author: Robert Kanigel
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/08/2017
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780345803337
ISBN10: 0345803337
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Political Science | Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development
- History | United States | 20th Century
About the Author
ROBERT KANIGEL is the author of seven previous books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for science writing. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For twelve years he was a professor of science writing at M.I.T. He and his wife now live in Baltimore, Maryland, and he writes full time.