A City Cannot Be a Work of Art - Sanford Ikeda Kartoniert (TB)

This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design her theoretical contributions - although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy - are frequently overlooked even by her most enthusiastic admirers. This book argues that Jacobs's insight that a city cannot be a work of art underlies both her ideas on planning and her understanding of economic development and social cooperation. I t shows how the theory of the market process and Jacobs's theory of urban processes are useful complements - an example of what economists and urbanists can learn from each other. This Jacobs-cum-market-process perspective offers new theoretical historical and policy analyses of cities more realistic and coherent than standard accounts by either economists or urbanists.