THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES

BY ( JANE JACOBS)

Jacobs wrote this book to introduce new,modern principles of the city planning and rebuilding. Its mainly writing about how cities work in real life,because it is the only way to learn what principles of planning and what practices in rebuildind can promote social and economic life force in cities, and what practices and principles will deaden these attributes. She start using a number of places like NEW YORK,becauce (that was where she lived), BOSTON,and PHILADELPHIA as an examples of the orthodox city planning and rebuilding which became a slum, because of the problems that the cities have. Also the second partof the book is principally about the economic behavior of the cities.