The American-Canadian self-made researcher Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was involved all her life with the livability and the socio-economic vitality of dynamic creative cities. She did this very thoroughly and with an eye for detail, so that each of her books led to a multitude of surprising and stimulating insights.nnDany Jacobs' aim with this book to safeguard this important legacy and to confront it with other authors who have written more recently on the subject of creative cities. Dealt with in succession are:n- spatial organisationn- economic vitalityn- socio-cultural mobilisationn- visual effects