Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary

Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide, as the articles in this volume demonstrate. Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into her complex and often contrarian way of thinking as well as analyses of her impact on urban planning theory and the consequences for planning practice. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication, in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulated approaches in planning, new challenges arise. The contributions in this book argue that it is not possible simply to follow Jane Jacobs's ideas to the letter, but instead it is necessary to contextualize them, to look for relevant lessons for cities and planners, and critically to re-evaluate why and how some of her ideas might be updated. Bringing together an international team of scholars and writers, this volume develops conclusions based on new research as to how her work can be re-interpreted under different circumstances and utilized in the current debate about the proclaimed ’millennium of the city’, the 21st century.

Politics & Social Sciences

Schubert, Dirk

Social Sciences

Routledge

<p>Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide, as the articles in this volume demonstrate. Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into her complex and often contrarian way of thinking as well as analyses of her impact on urban planning theory and the consequences for planning practice. Now, more than 50 years after the initial publication, in a period of rapid globalisation and deregulated approaches in planning, new challenges arise. The contributions in this book argue that it is not possible simply to follow Jane Jacobs's ideas to the letter, but instead it is necessary to contextualize them, to look for relevant lessons for cities and planners, and critically to re-evaluate why and how some of her ideas might be updated. Bringing together an international team of scholars and writers, this volume develops conclusions based on new research as to how her work can be re-interpreted under different circumstances and utilized in the current debate about the proclaimed ’millennium of the city’, the 21st century.</p>

Nach der beklagten "Krise der Stadt" ist derzeit vielfach von einer "Renaissance der Stadt" die Rede. Jane Jacobs gilt in diesem Zusammenhang in Nordamerika als bedeutende Kämpferin für Stadt und urbanes Leben sowie als Ikone der "Stadtplanung von unten". Ihr 1961 erschienener Erstling Tod und Leben großer amerikanischer Städte ist nach wie vor aktuell, in Neuauflagen erhältlich und inzwischen in viele Sprachen übersetzt worden. Auch hat ihr Widerstand gegen städtebauliche Großprojekte in New York und Toronto sie zu einem "Urban Guru" werden lassen. Bereits zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges, der Stadtflucht und Suburbanisierung proklamierte sie städtische Vielfalt, Nutzungsmischung, kompakte Stadt, Partizipation und behutsame Stadterneuerung.  Der Verfasser kontextualisiert Jacobs' Arbeiten, reflektiert ihre querdenkerischen späteren Bücher und analysiert die Wirkungsmacht, die sie entfalteten und die in einen transatlantischen Paradigmenwechsel der Stadtplanung und Stadterneuerung mündete. Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk "der bedeutendsten Publizistin zum Thema Stadt" erschließt ein ertragreiches Forschungsfeld und eröffnet zudem neue Perspektiven auf die Zukunft der Stadt.

Jane Jacobs und die Zukunft der Stadt: Diskurse - Perspektiven - Paradigmenwechsel (Beitrage Zur Stadtgeschichte Und Urbanisierungsforschung) (German Edition)

Franz Steiner Verlag

Stadterneuerung in London und Hamburg: Eine Stadtbaugeschichte zwischen Modernisierung und Disziplinierung (German Edition)

Vieweg

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Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary

Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary

Jane Jacobs und die Zukunft der Stadt: Diskurse - Perspektiven - Paradigmenwechsel (Beitrage Zur Stadtgeschichte Und Urbanisierungsforschung) (German Edition)

Stadterneuerung in London und Hamburg: Eine Stadtbaugeschichte zwischen Modernisierung und Disziplinierung (German Edition)