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Becoming Jane Jacobs
Abstract
In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional writer with deep knowledge about the renewal and dynamics of American cities.
Publication details
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Place: Philadelphia
Year: 2016
Pages: 365
Series: Arts and intellectual life in modern America
ISBN (hardback): 9780812247886
Full citation:
Laurence Peter (2016) Becoming Jane Jacobs. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.