· Becoming Jane Jacobs. Peter L. Laurence. University of Pennsylvania Press, - Architecture - pages. 0 Reviews. Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as . · In Becoming Jane Jacobs, Peter L. Laurence examines Jacobs’s intellectual life in the years prior to the publication of Death and Life. Laurence rejects the common stereotype that Jacobs was a housewife who had paid particular attention to the street life outside her Greenwich Village home before extrapolating these ideas across cities in general. A closer examination of Jacobs’s early life Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. With Becoming Jane Jacobs, Dr. Peter L. Laurence shows that what is missing from the stereotypes and myths is a critical examination of how Jacobs arrived at her ideas about city life. The book shows that although Jacobs had only a high school diploma, she pursued a writing career that prepared her to become a nationally recognized architectural critic just as postwar urban renewal policies came into 5/5(6).
Becoming Jane Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press), a new book by Dr. Peter L. Laurence MArch '99, was featured in the November issue of The bltadwin.ruiel Rich described it as "a close, vivid study of Jacobs's intellectual development." In September, economist Tyler Cowen wrote that Becoming Jane Jacobs was "definitely one of the best books of the year.". Becoming Jane Jacobs is an intellectual biography that chronicles Jacobs's development, influences, and writing career, Peter L. Laurence for the first time reveals the depth and complexity of Jacobs's self-education. As a writer, activist, and archetypal New Yorker, Jacobs put herself at the center of a debate on modernism that was also a. Becoming Jane Jacobs Peter L. Laurence Penn Press Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which she wrote between and , is considered one of the most important books on cities.
Women's Review of Books. "Jane Jacobs taught the world to perceive the city with new eyes, but first she had to teach herself to see. In this superbly researched and wonderfully original book, Peter L. Laurence for the first time reveals the depth and complexity of Jacobs's self-education. by. Peter L. Laurence. really liked it · Rating details · 19 ratings · 7 reviews. Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she uncovered the complex and intertwined physical and social fabric of the city and excoriated the urban renewal policies of the s. BECOMING JANE JACOBS. Peter L. Laurence. (an author of particular interest to Jane Jacobs), the development of Western democracy, not to mention the pre.
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