{"product_id":"vital-little-plans-the-short-works-of-jane-jacobs","title":"Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist  No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs  the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.  Vital Little Plans is an essential companion to Death and Life and Jacobss other books on urbanism  economics  politics  and ethics. It offers readers a unique survey of her entire career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume  from charming and incisive urban vignettes from the 1930s to the raw materials of her two unfinished books of the 2000s  together with introductions and annotations by editors Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring. Readers will find classics here  including Jacobss breakout article Downtown Is for People  as well as lesser-known gems like her speech at the inaugural Earth Day and a host of other rare or previously unavailable essays  articles  speeches  interviews  and lectures. Some pieces shed light on the development of her most famous insights  while others explore topics rarely dissected in her major works  from globalization to feminism to universal health care.  With this book  published in Jacobss centenary year  contemporary readerswhether well versed in her ideas or new to her writingare finally able to appreciate the full scope of her remarkable voice and vision. At a time when urban life is booming and people all over the world are moving to cities  the words of Jane Jacobs have never been more significant. Vital Little Plans weaves a lifetime of ideas from the most prominent urbanist of the twentieth century into a book thats indispensable to life in the twenty-first.  Praise for Vital Little Plans  Jacobss work . . . was a singularly accurate prediction of the future we live in.The New Republic  In Vital Little Plans  a new collection of the short writings and speeches of Jane Jacobs  one of the most influential thinkers on the built environment  editors Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring have done readers a great service.The Huffington Post  A wonderful new anthology that captures Jacobss confident prose and her empathetic  patient eye for the way humans live and work together.The Globe and Mail  A timely reminder of the clarity and originality of Jane Jacobss thought.Toronto Star  Vital Little Plans comes to the foreground for Jane Jacobss centennial  and in a time when more of Jacobss prescient wisdom is needed.Metropolis  Jacobs changed the debate on urban planning. . . . As Vital Little Plans shows  she never stopped refining her observations about how cities thrived.Minneapolis Star Tribune  Jane Jacobs was one of three people I have met in a lifetime of meeting people who had an aura of sainthood about them. . . . The ability to radiate certainty without condescension  to be both very sure and very simple  is a potent one  and witnessing it in life explains a lot in history that might otherwise be inexplicable.Adam Gopnik  The New Yorker  A rich  provocative  and insightful collection.Reason\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946105466933,"sku":"ByrdShop_0399589600","price":72.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780399589607_ad2e34ac-1621-41bd-98f9-475f4c8f63e1.jpg?v=1770149237","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vital-little-plans-the-short-works-of-jane-jacobs","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}