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The Death and Life of great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, the writer who is write about urban planning in the 20th century. This book published in 1961. The introduction of this book tells readers that some problems around the American cities. She attempt to argue modernist urban planning rejects our city. There are many examples of urban problems in the beginnig of the introduction. She wrote that why some cities are marvelous,and why our cities had many dull traps, vice traps, slums and they regenerate themself. Her opinions can be considered opposite to that of the modernists, upholding redundancy and vibrancy, against order and efficiency.The book also played a major role in the urban development of Toronto, Ontario,Canada where she was involved in the campaign to stop the Spadina Expressway. Her writings were an important influence on New Urbanism, an architecture and planning movement which emerged in the 1980s.