内容简介

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.

Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates–all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other outlets, while amassing the knowledge she would draw upon to write her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Here, too, is the activist who helped lead an ultimately successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village; and who, in order to keep her sons out of the Vietnam War, moved to Canada, where she became as well known and admired as she was in the United States.

作者简介

ROBERT KANIGEL is the author of seven previous books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for science writing. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For twelve years he was a professor of science writing at M.I.T. He ...

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精彩摘录

简后来坚决地认为，她在高中时期表现不佳，这实际上让她免去原本可能必须忍受的枯燥的学院教育。不论这个说法是否仅仅是合理化的辩解、刻意的负面抨击，或两者皆是，简的高中岁月的确培养出她对传统的教室及一般学术资历的反感，并贯彻了她的一生。

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25岁那年，简已经体验了书写、编辑还有出版世界的几个面向——她曾经是高中诗人、报社实习生、一位已确立地位的作家的研究助理、自由作家，以及出过书的作者（或者，不管再怎么说，她也是个“汇编者”），著有一本由大学出版社出版的书籍。

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