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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345803337)
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xThe 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
ISBN-10: 0345803337
ISBN-13: 9780345803337
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2017
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d
By Robert Kanigel
xROBERT 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.
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