Eyes on the Street
The first comprehensive biography of the indomitable woman who revolutionized the way we think about and live in cities, and whose impact can still be felt today in every debate of urban planning.
The extraordinary lady who raised three children, authored seven breakthrough books, rescued neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of discussions at home and on the streets—all of which she won—is revealed in Eyes on the Street. Here's the third-grader who pushed her teacher; the high school poet; and the journalist who refined her writing talents at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other publications while gathering the knowledge she'd need to create her most renowned book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Here, too, is the activist who helped lead an eventually successful protest against Robert Moses' proposed freeway through her beloved Greenwich Village, and who went to Canada to keep her boys out of the Vietnam War, where she became as well-known and revered as she was in the United States.
