Miesto Kultūros Žymėjimas Ir Jane Jacobs
Remapping City Culture and Jane Jacobs

Summary/Abstract: The processes of urban growth became the alfa and omega of large cities in post-communist Lithuania. However a discourse critically interpreting and analyzing these complex processes is still in the making. This article is an attempt to reconsider and discuss in a new context the criticism and ideas of Jane Jacobs – one of the truly leading and most important architectural and urban critics of the last century. The aim of the article is to discuss the attitude of Jane Jacobs to city culture and the role of architecture and urban planning in reshaping the contemporary city in order to make it more livable and enjoyable for city dwellers. The author of the article insists that one of the problems associated with urban planning and urban growth in this country is the fact that our urban discourses chronically lacked and still lack critical revisions of the most interesting and inspiring urban thinkers. There is no doubt that Jane Jacob’s urban criticism contains a lot of potential for revitalizing urban discourses in present-day Lithuania and provides certain framework for critical thinking about city culture.

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