Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

Synopsis

A Survey Of Jacobs's Career In Forty Short Pieces That Have Never Been Collected In A Single Volume: Essays, Articles, Speeches, Interviews, And Lectures, Covering Her Work In Urban And Economic Planning As Well As Globalization, Feminism, And Universal Health Care. Part One: A City Naturalist, 1934-1952 -- While Arranging Verses For A Book -- Diamonds In The Tough -- Flowers Come To Town -- Caution, Men Working -- 30,000 Unemployed And 7,000 Empty Houses In Scranton, Neglected City -- Islands The Boats Pass By -- No Virtue In Meek Conformity -- Part Two: City Building, 1952-1965 -- Philadelphia's Redevelopment: A Progress Report -- Pavement Pounders And Olympians -- The Missing Link In City Redevelopment -- Our Surplus Land -- Reason, Emotion, Pressure: There Is No Other Recipe -- Metropolitan Government -- Downtown Is For People -- A Living Network Of Relationships -- A Great Unbalance -- The Decline Of Function -- Part Three: How New Work Begins, 1965-1984 -- The Self-generating Growth Of Cities -- On Civil Disobedience -- Strategies For Helping Cities -- A City Getting Hooked On The Expressway Drug -- The Real Problem Of Cities -- Can Big Plans Solve The Problem Of Renewal? -- Part Four: The Ecology Of Cities, 1984-2000 -- The Responsibilities Of Cities -- Pedaling Together -- Foreword To The Death And Life Of Great American Cities -- Two Ways To Live -- First Letter To The Consumer Policy Institute -- Women As Natural Entrepreneurs -- Market Nurturing Run Amok -- Against Amalgamation -- Part Five: Some Patterns Of Future Development, 2000-2006 -- Time And Change As Neighborhood Allies -- Canada's Hub Cities -- Efficiency And The Commons -- The Sparrow Principle -- Uncovering The Economy: A New Hypothesis -- The End Of The Plantation Age. Edited By Samuel Zipp And Nathan Storring. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 463-468) And Index.