CITY PLANNERS ARE RAVAGING
They've put up gleaming stone and glass
file cabinet housing Which breeds delinquency
and crime.
They've built spacious green park areas
that are •voided by everyone but bums and
hoodlums.
They've condemned and destroyed en-
tire city blocks that are not slums, but
tractive places live.
They've zoned our cities into intolerable
patterns Of dullness.
Jane Jacobs says this and much more in her ex-
plosive new book, TIIE DEATH ASD LIFE OF CREAT
AMERICA x Mrs. Jacobs shows that the city
planners. have failed because they have over-
looked the realities Of urban life, and stripped
cities of the vitality and diversity which make
them exciting places to live. She offers Concrete,
practical alternatives that can save our cities from
the blunders of orthodox planners.
Harrison Salisbury Of the New York Times hails
this book as "the most refreshing, stimulating and
exciting study Of this greatest of Our problems Of
living which I've seen. •It fairly crackles with
bright honesty and good sense."
William H. Whyte, author of The Organization
Man, calls it "magnificent. One Of the most re-
mark-able books ever written about the city."
Tile Death and
Lite m treat
American Cities
Bv JANE JACOBS
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