Eyes on the Street
  • Published: 15 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780345803337
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $36.99

Eyes on the Street

The Life of Jane Jacobs

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The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.

Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.
  • Published: 15 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780345803337
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $36.99
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Praise for Eyes on the Street

  • "A powerful and all too rare biography of the making of a female public intellectual . . . Thrilling." --Fresh Air (NPR)
  • "The definitive Jacobs biography." --The Washington Post
  • "Sparkling . . . Magisterial . . . An exhaustively researched, beautifully rendered tale, revealing the human contours of a vigorous, original mind." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • "Kanigel has found the right tone for his subject, light but serious." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

  • "A powerful and all too rare biography of the making of a female public intellectual . . . Thrilling." --Fresh Air (NPR)
  • "The definitive Jacobs biography." --The Washington Post
  • "Sparkling . . . Magisterial . . . An exhaustively researched, beautifully rendered tale, revealing the human contours of a vigorous, original mind." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • "Kanigel has found the right tone for his subject, light but serious." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

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