Vital little plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs

Part one: A city naturalist, 1934-1952

While arranging verses for a book

Diamonds in the tough

Flowers come to town

Caution, men working

30,000 unemployed and 7,000 empty houses in Scranton, neglected city

Islands the boats pass by

No virtue in meek conformity

Part two: City building, 1952-1965

Philadelphia's redevelopment: a progress report

Pavement pounders and Olympians

The missing link in city redevelopment

Our "surplus" land

Reason, emotion, pressure: there is no other recipe

Metropolitan government

Downtown is for people

A living network of relationships

A great unbalance

The decline of function

Part three: How new work begins, 1965-1984

The self-generating growth of cities

On civil disobedience

Strategies for helping cities

A city getting hooked on the expressway drug

The real problem of cities

Can big plans solve the problem of renewal?

Part four: The ecology of cities, 1984-2000

The responsibilities of cities

Pedaling together

Foreword to The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Two ways to live

First letter to the Consumer Policy Institute

Women as natural entrepreneurs

Market nurturing run amok

Against amalgamation

Part five: Some patterns of future development, 2000-2006

Time and change as neighborhood allies

Canada's hub cities

Efficiency and the commons

The sparrow principle

Uncovering the economy: a new hypothesis

The end of the plantation age.