Princeton Architectural Press
Available: 11/09/07
7.90 x 9.94 · 64 pages
978-1-56898-771-2
CDN $19.95 · pb

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Block by Block

Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York

Timothy Mennel, Jo Steffens and
Christopher Klemek

Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about urbanist writer and activist Jane Jacobs, a proponent of mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly neighbourhoods. A who’s who of writers and cultural critics including Adam Gopnik, Tama Janowitz, Luc Sante and Tom Wolfe, discusses the contemporary relevance of Jacobs’ ideas about large-scale redevelopment, gentrification and activism.

Block by Block is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and published in collaboration with the Municipal Art Society of New York.