A City Cannot Be a Work of Art : : Learning Economics and Social Theory from Jane Jacobs.

• Author: Ikeda, Sanford.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Book
• Contents
• About the Author
• List of Figures
• 1: Introduction
• 1 An Afternoon in "The Annex"
• 2 Encountering Jane Jacobs
• 3 What's in This Book
• Works Cited
• Part I: Economics and Social Theory
• 2: The Continuing Relevance of Jane Jacobs's Economics and Social Theory
• 1 Does Jane Jacobs Have a Coherent Analytical Framework?
• 2 What Is Different About This Book and Jacobs's Approach to Cities?
• 3 A Living City Is Not a Man-Made Thing
• 4 Why We Will Be Focussing on Public Space
• 4.1 Public Space Versus Private Space
• 4.2 What Goes on Within the Built Environment Can Be Planned or Unplanned
• 5 The City Is a Relevant Unit of Economic Analysis
• 6 Jane Jacobs, Economic Theorist
• 6.1 Jacobsian Economics
• 6.2 Where I Disagree with Jacobs
• 6.3 Jane Jacobs as an Economist
• 6.3.1 Economists on Jane Jacobs
• 6.3.2 What Is Economics?
• 6.4 Summary
• 7 Jane Jacobs, Market-Process Theorist
• 8 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• 3: A City Is Not a Man-Made Thing
• 1 The Nature of a Living City
• 1.1 Spontaneous Order and Organized Complexity
• 1.2 Fellow Travelers
• 1.3 Complexity and Radical Ignorance
• 2 What the Trade-off Might Look Like
• 3 The City as a Spontaneous Order
• 4 Living Cities Are Not Economically Efficient
• 5 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• Part II: Diversity, Social Networks, and Development
• 4: The Paradox of Urban Diversity and Cohesion
• 1 Microfoundations of Jacobsian Economics
• 1.1 What Does "Diversity" Mean?
• 1.2 The Generators of Land-Use Diversity
• 1.2.1 Two or More Primary Uses
• 1.2.2 Population Density
• 1.2.3 Short Blocks
• 1.2.4 The Need for Old, Worn-Down Buildings
• 2 Re-Thinking Jacobs's Four Generators of Diversity
• 2.1 Re-thinking "Mixed Primary Uses".
• 2.2 Re-thinking "Short Blocks"
• 2.3 Re-thinking "Old, Worn-Down Buildings"
• 2.4 Re-thinking "Population Density"
• 3 It Is the Interaction of These Factors That Generates Diversity
• 3.1 Diversity and Resilience
• 3.2 Safety and Diversity
• 4 How the Market Process Solves Jacobs's Problem of Diversity and Cohesion
• 4.1 Markets Turn Diversity into Complementarity
• 4.2 Entrepreneurship Is a Coordinating Force in the Market Process
• 5 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• 5: Social Networks and Action Space in Cities
• 1 Cities and the Market Process
• 1.1 Entrepreneurship
• 1.2 Extending the Boundaries of Market-Process Economics
• 2 Action Space and Social Networks
• 2.1 The Nature of Action Space
• 2.2 Density, Distance, and Structure
• 2.3 Population Density Versus Network Density
• 2.4 The Importance of Network Structure
• 2.5 Social Distance, Strength of a Tie, and Diversity
• 3 "Jacobs Density"
• 4 Connected or Trapped?
• 4.1 Norms
• 4.2 Trust
• 4.3 The Dynamics of Action Space
• 4.4 Behavioral Trust
• 4.5 Freedom and Competition
• 4.6 Unintended Consequences
• 5 Implications for Urban Design: Fostering Social Capital in Action Space
• 5.1 The Design of Public Spaces and Social Capital
• 5.2 Border Vacuums, Cataclysmic Money, and Visual Homogeneity Again
• 6 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• 6: The Life and Death of Cities
• 1 Cities and Economic Development
• 2 The Problems of Discovery and Diffusion
• 3 Solving the Problems of Discovery and Diffusion
• 4 Economic Freedom and Social Networks
• 5 The Process of Innovation: Parent Work and New Work
• 6 Economic Development via Import Replacement and Import Shifting
• 6.1 The Division of Labor as a Spontaneous Order
• 6.2 Innovation as a Process of Import Replacement and Shifting
• 6.3 A Digression on Tariffs.
• 6.4 The Inefficiency of Economic Development
• 7 The Self-Destruction of Diversity
• 8 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• Part III: Planning and Revitalization (and a Coda)
• 7: A Living City Is Messy (and What Not to Do About It)
• 1 Urbanization and Its Problems
• 2 The Constructivist Response: Large-Scale Approaches
• 2.1 Constructivism and "Cartesian Rationalism"
• 2.2 Kindred Spirits
• 2.3 The Consequences for Urban Design
• 3 Constructivist Theories of Urban Planning and Design
• 4 Classic Examples of Cartesian Planning in Practice
• 5 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• 8: Fixing Cities
• 1 Urban Interventions That Jacobs Criticizes
• 1.1 Functional Zoning
• 1.2 Rent Regulation and Inclusionary Zoning
• 1.2.1 Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning
• 1.2.2 Voluntary Inclusionary Zoning
• 1.2.3 Other Problems with Inclusionary Zoning
• 1.3 Housing for Low-Income Households
• 1.3.1 Jacobs's "Guaranteed Rent" Method for Subsidizing Housing
• 1.3.2 The Need for "Substandard" Housing
• 1.4 The Housing Problem Is Historically a Poverty Problem but Has Lately Become a Policy Problem
• 2 Market Urbanist Critiques from a Jacobsian Perspective
• 2.1 Building Codes
• 2.2 Mobility
• 2.3 Urban Sprawl
• 2.3.1 Sprawl, Historically Considered
• 2.3.2 Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk: "New Urbanism" as a Response to Sprawl
• 3 Policies Critiqued from a Purely Market Urbanist Perspective
• 3.1 Government-Sponsored Community Participation
• 3.2 Surveillance City
• 3.3 Public-Private Partnerships in the United States
• 3.4 Landmarking and Historic Preservation
• 4 Concluding Thoughts
• Works Cited
• 9: Cities of the Future
• 1 Broader Conceptual Lessons and Necessary Elaborations
• 1.1 Planning for Vitality
• 1.2 O-Judgments Versus S-Judgments
• 1.3 Governance Versus Government.
• 1.4 Kinds of Rules and Their Enforcement
• 1.4.1 Rule of Law and Negative Rules
• 1.4.2 Nomos and Thesis
• 2 Jacobs and Market Urbanism
• 3 Cities of the Future
• 3.1 Urban Revitalization
• 3.1.1 Shared Streets
• 3.1.2 Sandy Springs, Georgia
• 3.1.3 Cayalá, Guatemala City
• 3.2 City Building: Charter Cities and Startup Societies
• 3.2.1 Charter Cities
• 3.2.2 Startup Societies
• 3.3 Other Examples of Startup Societies
• 3.3.1 Gurgaon, India
• 3.3.2 Dubai, UAE, and Neom The Line
• 4 What Then Might a City Be?
• Works Cited
• 10: Coda
• 1 Elements of Jane Jacobs's Social Theory
• 2 Elements of Jane Jacobs's Economics
• 3 Elements of Jane Jacobs's Public Policy
• 4 Looking Ahead
• Works Cited
• Appendix to Chapter 5
• Calculating Social Average Distances
• Network A
• Network B
• Appendix to Chapter 6
• On the Need for Tariffs
• Appendix 1 to Chapter 9
• Jane Jacobs and Classical Liberalism
• Appendix 2 to Chapter 9
• Alain Bertaud on the Practical Problems of City Building
• Index.