A City Cannot Be a Work of Art : : Learning Economics and Social Theory from Jane Jacobs.
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023. ©2024. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
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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.