Abstract
Jane Jacobs’ The death and life of great American cities, published in 1961, still remains an unquestionable landmark for urban studies until the present day. More recently, the book has been frequently used to justify disparate political positions concerning the urban, both theoretical and practical. This paper’s main objective is to analyze how completely different accounts are covered by the book. In order to do so, I am proposing a reading of Jacobs’ work that takes her thoughts’ internal tensions and ambiguities into consideration.
Keywords:
Jane Jacobs; The death and life of great American cities; urban planning; Tensions; review