- 198 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society's collective achievements.
Allan B. Jacobs is one of the world's best known planners and urban design practitioners, with a long and distinguished international career. Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured.
Written with a wonderfully engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs' own drawings, The Good City transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the magnificent, beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: Experiencing Cities: An Introduction
- Part II: Learning from Calcutta
- Part III: Learning in Italy
- Part IV: City People: Fragments
- Part V: Breaking and Making Community
- Part VI: World-Class Cities
- Part VII: City Certainties
- Part VIII: San Francisco
- Part IX: The Good City
- Index