CONTENTS Introduction: More Than Meets the Eye by Max Page 3 The Unknown Jane Jacobs: Geographer, Propagandis City Planning Idealist by Peter L. Laurence 15 An Australian Jane Jacobs by Jane M Jacobs 37 The Literary Craft of Jane Jacobs by Jamln Creed Rowan 43 Urban Warfare: The Battles for BuenosAires by Sergio Kiernan 57 The Magpie and the Bee: Jane Jacobs's Magnificent Obsession by Richard Harris 65 Jane Jacobs in Dutch Cities and Towns: 83 Metropolitan Romance in Provincial Reality by Gert-Jan Hospers Time, Scale, and Control: How New Urbanism (Mis) Uses Jane Jacobs by Jill L. Grant 91 Planning the Modern Arab City: The Case of Abu Dhabi by Rudayna Abdo, AICP, and Geoffrey M. Satzel, AICP 105 Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community Is by Timothy Mennel 119 A Chinese Perspective by Nathan Cherry,129 Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning by Thomas J. Campanella 141 Notes 161 Contributors 181 Index 185