Last Update:  August 22, 2010

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Next Meeting

“The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs. 

Thirty years after its publication, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” was described by “The New York Times” as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition. http://www.amazon.com/Death-American-Cities-Modern-Library/dp/0679600477/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277725810&sr=1-1  The book is 458 pages and available in paperback.

When:  Monday, September 20, 2010

Time:  7:00 pm

Location:  To Be Announced to Registered Participants
 

Book Nominations
 

If you have a book, you would like to read for the next meeting, please email it along with a description and any hyperlinked reviews to dcbookdiscussion@yahoo.com  before the end of the current month.  Nominated books will be voted on by the participants in the following month.