Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
From Scranton to New York
Urban blight
Urban renewal
The housewife with no college degree
The death and life of great American cities
The West Village and Lomex battles
More battles
Race, gentrification, and the South Bronx
Toronto
Economist without portfolio
The quintessential American
Notes

About the Author

ALICE SPARBERG ALEXIOU is a journalist and an editor at Lilith magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has a Ph.D. in classics from Fordham University. She lives in Bellmore, New York.

Reviews

Jacobs's legacy can be seen in the New Urbanism, in the landmark-preservation movement and in the brain cells of architecture and city-planning students everywhere. - New York Times