New York: Random House.Īssemblage Thinking and the City: Implications for Urban StudiesĪUTHORS: Hesam Kamalipour, Nastaran PeimaniĪssemblage, Urban Theory, Deleuze, Critical, De Landa, UrbanismĪBSTRACT: The last decade has seen an increasing interest in the application of assemblage thinking, in geography, sociology, and urban studies. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Come visit us!ĭownload the NYPL app for one stop access to everything the Library has to offer including self-checkout!Ģ. Join other avid readers including staff from the South Beach Library for an in-person book discussion on Wednesday, May 24 at 11:15 AM.Jacobs, J. They are displayed on the designated BOOK CLUB SHELF located next to the NEW BOOKS section at the library. Please Note: South Beach Library does have a limited number of physical copies available for check-out.She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.ġ. Choose your prefered reading format here to start the check-out process In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. Join us for our bi-monthly book club dedicated to the classics!Ĭompassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.Ī direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. This event will take place in-person at the South Beach Library.
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