Books By Jane Jacobs

Books About Jane

Online Resources
• Project For Public Spaces
• Healthy Cities, Urban Theory, and Design: The Power of Jane Jacobs
• Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York, an exhibition created by the Municipal Art Society of New York
• KunstlerCast: Jane Jacobs, Urban Thinker
• Ideas That Matter

Books by Jane Jacobs

  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York: Random House, 1961.
  • The Economy of Cities, New York: Random House, 1969.
  • The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty. New York: Random House, 1980.
  • Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life, New York, Random House, 1984.
  • The Girl on the Hat, London: Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, New York: Random House, 1992.
  • Jacobs, J., ed.  A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska, the diaries of Hannah Breece (Jane Jacobs’ great-aunt). New York: Random House, 1997.
  • The Nature of Economies, New York, Modern Library, 2000.
  • Dark Age Ahead, New York: Random House, 2004.
  • The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics From Five Great Thinkers, Toronto: Anansi, 2007.

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