Cover of The economy of cities

The economy of cities

by Jane Jacobs

1969 268 pages eng

The thesis of Jane Jacobsʹ The Economy of Cities remains remarkably fresh and provocative three decades later. Cities, she asserts, are not the result of processes most scientists and economists have assumed they were: Cities do not develop because a pre-existing rural economic base develops and eve…

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