General Information

Author/Creator

Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Random House, c1984.

Physical Description

ix, 257 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"In this iconoclastic work, which profoundly upsets the way we think about wealth and poverty and the rise and decline of nations and empires, Jane Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it. Productive cities, she explains, create prosperous mixed economies in their own surrounding regions, but shape stunted, wildly unbalanced -- and usually exploited and poor -- economics in regions that lack productive cities on their own. (...) The subject of this book, in other words, is the rise and decline of wealth: Why do some economies prosper while others languish?"

Subjects

Subject

Urban economics.

Economic history.

Wealth.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Jane Jacobs.

Content

1. Fool's paradise -- 2. Back to reality -- 3. Cities' own regions -- 4. Supply regions -- 5. Regions workers abandon -- 6. Technology and clearances -- 7. Transplant regions -- 8. Capital for regions without cities -- 9. Bypassed places -- 10. Why backward cities need one another -- 11. Faulty feedback to cities -- 12. Transactions of decline -- 13. The predicament -- 14. Drift.

ISBN

0394480473

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	330.9173/2 JAC		OSA Repository	Donation of Márk László-Herbert.

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