Looking at Cities:

Allan B. Jacobs

Published by Harvard University Press 1985

Looking at Cities

Allan B. Jacobs

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674863873

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About this book

Allan Jacobs has written a city planning book for everyone with a passion for urban environments. His message--conveyed in word and vivid image--is that the people who make changes in cities base their decisions upon what they see, and that their visions and actions, which affect the lives of millions, have too often been faulty. This book is about how to look at and understand urban environments.

In order to plan sensitively, the city and regional planner must walk in, look at, wonder about, and simply enjoy cities. Careful observation is a crucial tool for the kind of analysis and questioning necessary to achieve good planning. Through observation the city planner and urban activist can learn when an area was built, for whom it was built, who lives there now, how it has changed, and how it might be improved for present and future inhabitants.

Jacobs shows us how to read cities by identifying and discussing the many visual clues and their various meanings in different environments. Case studies of American and European cities--San Jose, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Bologna, Rome--and over two hundred striking photographs, drawings, and maps by the author present ways to read the environment that will prove indispensable for urban planners and will delight all city watchers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Starting to look Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Observing and Interpreting Naglee Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Clues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Observing and interpreting east Walnut Hills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Seeing Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Observing the Unknown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Looking Back Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 153
Illustrations
- Other: illsutrations
Keywords: City planning -- Methodology.; Landscape assessment -- Observers' manuals.; City planning -- United States -- Case studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674863873

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1985
ISBN: 9780674863866