Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American cities (1961)
The paper should discuss the topic of the book and the author’s perspective. Please choose one of the books that is listed below, and it needs to be 505-750 word paprer, university level writing. Thanks so much. Here is the list of the books:
Carl Abbott, The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities (1981)
Michael Bernick, Urban Illusions: New Approaches to Inner City Unemployment (1987)
John C. Bollens & Henry J. Schmandt, The Metropolis: People, Politics, and Economic Life (4th ed., 1982)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983)
Roger Daniels, Asian Americans: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (1988)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Subculture in the United States, 1945-1970 (1983)
Bernard J. Frieden & Lynne B. Sagalyn, Downtown. Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities (1990)
Susan S. Fainstein, Norman I. Fainstein, Richard Child Hill, Dennis R. Judd, and Michael Peter Smith, Restructuring the City (1986)
Robert Fisher, Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America (1984)
Robert Fogelson, Violence as Protest: A Study of Riots and Ghettos (1971)
Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
Mark I. Gelfand, A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933-1965 (1975)
Paul & Percival Goodman, Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (1947)
Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962)
Dolores Hayden, Redesigning the American dream: The Future of Housing. Work and Family Life (1984)
John Herbers, The New Heartland: America’s Flight Beyond the Suburbs and How it is Changing Our Future (1988)
Ruth Horowitz, Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community (1983)
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American cities (1961)
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Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American cities (1961)
The title of this book tries to look at the various dangers that are found in America’s major cities such as New York, Washington and Dallas. It also refers to the various safety measures that can be put in place to ensure that the streets of these towns are safe. Therefore, this topic is mainly focused on what makes American major cities safe or unsafe (Jacobs 2011).
This book was mainly written to critique the urban planning policies………………..
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