{"product_id":"becoming-jane-jacobs","title":"Becoming Jane Jacobs","description":"\u003cp\u003eJane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Death and Life of Great American Cities\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the 1950s. As the legend goes, Jacobs, a housewife, single-handedly stood up to Robert Moses, New York City's powerful master builder, and other city planners who sought first to level her Greenwich Village neighborhood and then to drive a highway through it. Jacobs's most effective weapons in these David-versus-Goliath battles, and in writing her book, were her powers of observation and common sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is missing from such discussions and other myths about Jacobs, according to Peter L. Laurence, is a critical examination of how she arrived at her ideas about city life. Laurence shows that although Jacobs had only a high school diploma, she was nevertheless immersed in an elite intellectual community of architects and urbanists. \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Becoming Jane Jacobs\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; is an intellectual biography that chronicles Jacobs's development, influences, and writing career, and provides a new foundation for understanding \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Death and Life\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; and her subsequent books. Laurence explains how Jacobs's ideas developed over many decades and how she was influenced by members of the traditions she was critiquing, including \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Architectural Forum\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; editor Douglas Haskell, shopping mall designer Victor Gruen, housing advocate Catherine Bauer, architect Louis Kahn, Philadelphia city planner Edmund Bacon, urban historian Lewis Mumford, and the British writers at \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Architectural Review\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;. Rather than discount the power of Jacobs's critique or contributions, Laurence asserts that \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Death and Life\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional writer and experienced arc\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52653670531439,"sku":"9780812224429","price":187.6,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0812224426.jpg?v=1770741487","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/becoming-jane-jacobs","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}