Jane Jacobs's First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania

by Glenna Lang

A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs's ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton

Jane Jacobs's First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer's classic works germinated in the once vibrant, mid-size city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Jane spent her initial eighteen years. In the 1920s and 1930s, Scranton was a place of enormous di-versity and opportunity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613321392
• ISBN13: 9781613321393
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: New Village Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"