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Thirty years after its publication, The Loss of life and Life of Great American Cities was detailed by The New York Times as "possibly the most influential solo work in the annals of town planning....[It] can be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the information of avenue life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago assimilated and appropriated the book's quarrels." Jane Jacobs, an editor and article writer on structures in NEW YORK in the first 60s, argued that urban variety and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city organizers. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of metropolitan areas. It is reasonable, knowledgeable, readable, vital. The writer has written a new foreword because of this Modern Library release.
