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Becoming Jane Jacobs / Peter L. Laurence.

By: Laurence, Peter L.
Material type: TextTextSeries: The arts and intellectual life in modern America.Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2016Description: 365 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 978-0-8122-4788-6.Subject(s): Urbanistas -- Estados Unidos -- Biografía | Urbanismo -- Canadá -- Historia -- Siglo XXLOC classification: HT 167 | .L38
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Resumen: As the legend goes, Jane Jacobs, a housewife, single-handedly stood up to Robert Moses, New York City's powerful master builder, and other city planners who sought first to level her Greenwich Village neighborhood and then to drive a highway through it. In Becoming Jane Jacobs, Peter L. Laurence asserts that her book The Death and Ufe of Great American Cities.

Índice: p. 349-361

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