A City Cannot Be a Work of Art

Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-981-99-5361-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 663 g

This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most enthusiastic admirers. This book argues that Jacobs’s insight that “a city cannot be a work of art” underlies both her ideas on planning and her understanding of economic development and social cooperation. It shows how the theory of the market process and Jacobs’s theory of urban processes are useful complements – an example of what economists and urbanists can learn from each other. This Jacobs-cum-market-process perspective offers new theoretical, historical, and policy analyses of cities, more realistic and coherent than standard accounts by either economists or urbanists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ikeda, Sanford

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Continuing Relevance of Jane Jacobs’s Economics and Social Theory.- Chapter 3. A City Is Not a Man-Made Thing.- Chapter 4. The Paradox of Urban Diversity and Cohesion.- Chapter 5. Social Networks and Action Space in Cities.- Chapter 6. The Life and Death of Cities.- Chapter 7. A Living City is Messy (and What Not to Do About It).- Chapter 8. Fixing Cities.- Chapter 9. Cities of the Future.- Chapter 10. Coda.

Über Autor(innen)

Sanford Ikeda is Professor Emeritus at Purchase College, The State University of New York, a fellow of the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economics Processes at New York University, and serves on the boards of The Economic Freedom Institute, Cosmos+Taxis, and The Center for the Living City. He is the author of Dynamics of the Mixed Economy (1997). His research focuses on the interconnections among cities, spontaneous social orders, entrepreneurial development, and urban policy.