summary of the introduction

“The Death and Life of Great American Cities” is written by Jane Jacobs. Although she has written this book for a long time, the book is still very influential. She cares the cities a lot. We can see it in her book. She is very discontent in the planning of the city. She criticizes about the design of the cities and the planner. They didn’t consider the actual situation of the cities. In the introduction, she brings up few question such as “what principle of planning?” and “what practices in rebuilding can promote social and economic vitality in cities?” the main idea of the book is showed in this few question. Critique on the design of the cities and the rebuilding of current cities, economy of cities issue and the introduction of new principles of cities planning are what she wants to mention. She applies comment in many aspects in the design of the cities and examples in the book.