Exploring the Thought of Jane Jacobs

The Conversation of Cities

Richard Keeley (Autor)

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208 Seiten

2026
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7489-8 (ISBN)

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Examines Jane Jacobs’s seven major books to explain her thinking on cities, nations, and economies, and suggests the continuing relevance of her thought to today’s challenges.

In conversation with the great works of author, theorist, and activist Jane Jacobs, this study investigates her thoughts on cities, nations, and economies for today’s urban challenges.

With the publication of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) changed the way urban planners, architects, politicians, and ordinary citizens the world over understood the city and its challenges. Less attention has been paid to her subsequent works on cities and economies; Exploring the Thought of Jane Jacobs seeks to remedy that neglect. With careful attention to context, Richard Keeley explores Jacobs’s understanding of streets and neighborhoods in cities great and small and her vision of the city as an organism extended through generations. He examines Jacobs's theories on the dynamics of economic development, the ethics of the workplace, and the difficulties of ethical business practice. He concludes with a reflection in Jacobsian terms on the need for a politics of place spanning generations.

Richard Keeley, before his retirement,served as Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduates in the Carroll School of Management and Director of Programs for the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics at Boston College.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Dreaming the City
Chapter 2. The Existential City
Chapter 3. City Talk: The Conversation of Streets
Chapter 4. The Economics of Urban Life
Chapter 5. Work in the City: Traders, Guardians, and Makers
Chapter 6. Sustaining “the Whole Precarious Contraption”: Education in the City
Chapter 7. Further Conversations with Jane Jacobs
Appendix: For Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	7 bw
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-7618-7489-5 / 0761874895
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-7489-8 / 9780761874898
Zustand	Neuware