URBAN CENTER BOOKS: JANE JACOBS AND THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK

Foreword 4

from “Cities and Songs” 5

Sounds of New York City from Harlem, 116th & 7th Ave 6

Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York 7

Commemoration 12

from “Jane Jacobs Revisited” 13

The Nature of Cities 14

A New Urbanist’s View of Jane Jacobs 15

The Death and Life of Great American Towns 16

Big Sky over Gowanus 17

Jane Jacobs, Pragmatist 18

This Is the Time When Beautiful Girls... 19

Pathological Urbanity 22

Art’s Sake 24

Nature Morte 25

from "The Colossus of New York" 26

from “My Lost City” 27

from "Analogue" 28

Toward That Better City 30

Not Good, but Well Behaved... 33

Community Vision 35

The Perks of the City 36

Goner Pillow Company 37

Chow of the City 38

How Do We Shout? 39

New Ideas Require Old Buildings 40

Jacobs Omnibus 43

The Glory of Harlem 44

Musing on the City 45

Light-Years Ahead 46

Where I Live 47

A Personal Reflection 48

from “It Happens Every Day” 49

History’s Angel 50

Local Cities, Global Problems 51

Meeting Jane Jacobs 54

The Nature of Economies 55

from “Gothamitis” 56

from “Designs for Working” 58

The City I Love 59

Home Recipe 61

Bibliography 62

First We Kill the Architects 64

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URBAN CENTER BOOKS is proud to present the publication of BLOCK BY BLOCK: JANE JACOBS AND THE FUTURE OF NEW YORK Co-published with Princeton Architectural Press this publication accompanies the exhibition currently on view at the Municipal Art Society.	TABLE OF CONTENTS Judith Rodin Adam Gopnik Quincy Troupe Christopher Klemek Paul Goldberger Karrie Jacobs Christopher Alexander John Norquist Michael McDonough Phillip Lopate Joan Ockman Thomas de Monchaux Tama Janowitz Tom Wolfe Jesse Reiser Colson Whitehead Luc Sante Zoe Leonard Robert Neuwirth Marshall Brown Majora Carter Allison Arieff Ben Katchor David McAninch Reverend Billy Lisa Rochon Damon Rich Michael Henry Adams Carlton Brown Roberta Brandes Gratz Yvonne Durant Ron Shiffman Marshall Berman Nathan Glazer Andrew Blum David Grahame Shane Saskia Sassen Adam Gopnik Malcolm Gladwell Tony Goldman Mother Jacobs’s Jane Jacobs Danny Lyon	Foreword 4 from “Cities and Songs” 5 Sounds of New York City from Harlem, 116th & 7th Ave 6 Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York 7 Commemoration 12 from “Jane Jacobs Revisited” 13 The Nature of Cities 14 A New Urbanist’s View of Jane Jacobs 15 The Death and Life of Great American Towns 16 Big Sky over Gowanus 17 Jane Jacobs, Pragmatist 18 This Is the Time When Beautiful Girls... 19 Pathological Urbanity 22 Art’s Sake 24 Nature Morte 25 from "The Colossus of New York" 26 from “My Lost City” 27 from "Analogue" 28 Toward That Better City 30 Not Good, but Well Behaved... 33 Community Vision 35 The Perks of the City 36 Goner Pillow Company 37 Chow of the City 38 How Do We Shout? 39 New Ideas Require Old Buildings 40 Jacobs Omnibus 43 The Glory of Harlem 44 Musing on the City 45 Light-Years Ahead 46 Where I Live 47 A Personal Reflection 48 from “It Happens Every Day” 49 History’s Angel 50 Local Cities, Global Problems 51 Meeting Jane Jacobs 54 The Nature of Economies 55 from “Gothamitis” 56 from “Designs for Working” 58 The City I Love 59 Home Recipe 61 Bibliography 62 First We Kill the Architects 64


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