Becoming Jane Jacobs

Peter Laurence

Arts and intellectual life in modern America | 1

University of Pennsylvania Press

2016

Abstract

In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional writer with deep knowledge about the renewal and dynamics of American cities.

Reviews

• David Seamon, "A new system of thought on the city" Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology 27 (2), 2016, pp. 6-9