Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs

Summary: "Chronicles the life of a noted activist who wrote seven groundbreaking books, including her most famous, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; saved neighborhoods; stopped expressways; was arrested twice; and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates -- all of which she won,"--NoveList.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307961907
Physical Description: print
viii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2016].

Content descriptions

General Note:	Endpapers are maps.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	An uncredentialed woman, 1916-1954. A generous place to live -- Outlaw -- Ladies' nest of owls, and other milestones in the education of Miss Jane Butzner -- The great bewildering world -- Morningside Heights -- Women's work -- Amerika -- Trushchoby -- In the big world, 1954-1968. Disenchantment -- Ten minutes at Harvard -- A person worth talking to -- A manuscript to show us -- Mother Jacobs of Hudson Street -- The physical fallacy -- West Village warrior -- Luncheon at the White House -- Gas masks at the Pentagon -- On Albany Avenue, 1968-2006. A circle of their own -- Settling in -- Our Jane -- Flummoxed -- Adam, Karl, and Jane -- Webs of trust -- Ideas that matter -- Civilization's child.