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| | Jane Jacobs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Measures promoted by Jacobs such as urban living and cycling have been argued to be impractical due to skyrocketing downtown land value, although proponents counter that this is the case in the very few cities that have actually maintained a large core population, which are few and far between in the United States. | | | Jacobs opposed Robert Moses, who had already forced through the Cross-Bronx Expressway and other motorways against neighborhood opposition. | | | Widely read by both planning professionals and the general public, the book is a strong critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s which, she claimed, destroyed communities and created isolated, unnatural urban spaces. |
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| | CBC Toronto - Renowned urban writer Jane Jacobs dies |
| | Jacobs has been arrested twice while protesting urban plans she believed to be destructive. | | | Jacob's most recent book, Dark Age Ahead, is "a grave warning to a society losing its memory," jurists said in awarding her the $15,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, in 2005. | | | In New York where she lived for 30 years, Jacobs developed into an outspoken activist, opposing the Lower Manhattan Expressway, a downtown expressway that was to cut through urban neighbourhoods. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/to_jacobs20060425.html
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| | Jane Jacobs, The Anti-Planner - Mises Institute |
| | Jane Jacobs is one of those intellectuals who seem ever on the periphery of the libertarian movement. | | | Some libertarians may bristle when they realize that Jacobs aims her criticisms not only at government planning but also at private planning, which she argues can also be heavy-handed. | | | Nevertheless, she is a largely untapped source of ideas and insights for these two groups, and a friend in the fight against tyranny, both local and global. |
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http://mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1247&month=57&...&id=57
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| | Urban Iconoclast: Jane Jacobs Revisited by Howard Husock, City Journal Winter 1994 |
| | Again and again Jacobs warns against government policies that are insensitive to this process of economic generation and regeneration—an insensitivity which she clearly believes can be just as fatal to whole cities, and ultimately to national economics, as urban renewal was to specific neighborhoods. | | | Put another way, Jacobs actually saw herself as an apostle, not an opponent, of progress, but was convinced that policies pursued in the name of economic and aesthetic improvement were actually anti-modern and would deaden the city’s economy. | | | She would certainly be intrigued by the Staten Island secession movement since she devotes an entire chapter in Death and Life to “governing and planning districts” and takes the view that government should have succinct geographic locales on which to focus. |
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http://www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1418
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| | Amazon.com: Dark Age Ahead (Vintage): Books: Jane Jacobs |
| | Jacobs states "a large part of the country is economically stagnant or declining" in describing Canada, then lapses into the Oswald Spengler syndrome. | | | Jacobs will not please those who have permanently bound themselves to either the Left or Right, but those of us able to look beyond ideology in search of real solutions will find much to ponder here. | | | When I read Jacob's previous books especially "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" and "Cities and the Wealth of Nations", I became aware that I was reading the insights of a brilliant mind. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400076706?v=glance
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| | Jane Jacobs, urban legend, returns Downtown |
| | In Jacobs’ view, David Rockefeller was the main adversary in the urban renewal project, while Moses was the foe in the Lower Manhattan Expressway project. | | | Jacobs insisted that no one person was the hero of those struggles. | | | “They had everything invested in what they believed, and I had nothing to lose,” Jacobs said. |
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| | Jacobs, Jane on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Her subsequent books, focused on urban and regional economies as well as broader topics, include The Economy of Cities (1969), Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984), Systems of Survival (1992), The Nature of Economies (2000), and Dark Age Ahead (2004). | | | Jane Jacobs, 89; Writer, Activist Spoke Out Against Urban Renewal | | | Jane Jacobs, 89, reshaped the way people view citiesOBITUARY |
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http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/J/JacobsJ1a.asp
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| | CNN.com - Books - Jane Jacobs still helping to shape cities - November 23, 2000 |
| | Robert Caro, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moses biography, "The Power Broker," calls Jacobs "one of the heroines of New York history." He believes she stands for "independent thought, smaller is better, that streetscapes have to very carefully crafted, that the car can't be allowed to dominate the city." | | | She also believes that economies need to be self-sustaining, self-renewing, relying on local initiative instead of centralized bureaucracies. | | | In the early 1960s, she led the successful opposition in New York City's Greenwich Village against a proposed expressway through Washington Square. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/11/23/jane.jacobs.ap
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| | jacobs.html |
| | Proving that other ideologies had no better grasp on development, Mao nearly destroyed China with his Great Leap Forward (1958), which attempted to bypass the cities and scatter factories over the Chinese countryside; the result was chaos and famine. | | | Many people, thinking of the German and American experience leading to WWII, believe that gearing up for war is a stimulus. | | | A recent rant of mine mentioned cities, which led to a meandering discussion about cities and rural areas on my board, and led me to realize that not enough people have read Jane Jacobs. |
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http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html
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| | 2blowhards.com: Jane Jacobs |
| | In a way, she's a genius version of the little old lady in tennis shoes -- the cranky broad in the visor cap who hangs out at the library, and who shows up at every town meeting to let her views be known. | | | It has always been to what she has actually encountered and seen -- to how things actually are, and to how they actually happen. | | | I like Jacobs partly because you can take what she says metaphorically -- cities aren't just ecosystems, they're consciousness itself, etc... |
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http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/002592.html
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| | Jane Jacobs, 89; Writer, Activist Spoke Out Against Urban Renewal |
| | Jane Jacobs, 89, a writer and activist who condemned urban-renewal efforts for devastating inner-city neighborhoods and, despite an initial reputation as a radical and heretic, was vindicated as an influential thinker on city planning, died April 25 at a hospital in Toronto. | | | Jane Jacobs, 89; Writer, Activist Spoke Out Against Urban Renewal | | | Jacobs, an author and community activist of singular influence whose classic "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" transformed ideas about urban planning has died, her publisher said. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042501026.html
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| | Jane Jacobs, Urban Activist, Is Dead at 89 - New York Times |
| | Jane Jacobs, the writer and thinker who brought penetrating eyes and ingenious insight to the sidewalk ballet of her own Greenwich Village street and came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities, died today in Toronto, where she lived. | | | In 1961, she and other screaming protesters were removed by the police from a City Planning Commission hearing after they had leapt from their seats and rushed the podium. | | | Jacobs eviscerated in the book, suggested in a review in The New Yorker that she had displayed "esthetic philistinism with a vengeance." |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/books/25cnd-jacobs.html?ex=1303617600&en=a7a29ca1bd32a770&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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| | Reason magazine -- June 2001, City Views -- Jane Jacobs Interviewed by Bill Steigerwald |
| | Jacobs' subsequent books have been just as revolutionary, if not always as widely read. | | | Reason: Do you think that the people who run American cities have learned what to do and what not to do? | | | You were the one who stood up to the federal bulldozers and the urban renewal people and said they were destroying the lifeblood of these cities. |
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http://reason.com/0106/fe.bs.city.shtml
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| | Boing Boing: RIP Jane Jacobs, urban activist |
| | "The key with Jane was that she believed that the world was a complex place. | | | Reading that book rendered visible whole rafts of secrets about how the world around me functioned. | | | Jacobs was an urban activist and writer about cities. |
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http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/25/rip_jane_jacobs_urba.html
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| | The vibrant legacy of Jane Jacobs. By Witold Rybczynski |
| | The first sentence is characteristically direct: "This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding." Jacobs criticized what she considered the utopian and misguided theories of Modernism, and she also rejected the other chief urban theories that had influenced 20 | | | This was a frontal attack on the idea that cities could be designed at all. | | | Jacobs' own prescription, inasmuch as she had one, was based on an appreciation of the vitality of traditional urban neighborhoods, in particular Greenwich Village in New York, where she lived. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2140615
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| | Radical Dreamer: Jane Jacobs on the streets of Toronto |
| | They met at a party the twenty-seven-year old Jane Butzner and her two roommates gave at their apartment in Greenwich Village in 1944. | | | Jane's responses to urban settlement--expressed in Death and Life, in The Economy of Cities, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations, and in thousands of conversations--are both radical and highly personal. | | | And it was Bob who decided that the family should move from New York to Toronto in 1968; that was after both their sons said they would go to jail rather than serve in the Vietnam war. |
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| | Torontoist: Jane Jacobs |
| | She said that the question of whether Quebec should or should not separate is a question that should be fair to ask. | | | Jane Jacobs may have been born in America, but she divorced herself from the USA in the 60s, much like Hurricane Carter who went on to found the Association for the Defense of the Wrongly Convicted. | | | However it sounds to me as if Jacobs was doing more than that; it sounds to me as if she had jumped right into the heart of the debate. |
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http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2006/04/jane_jacobs.php
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| | Gothamist: Jane Jacobs is Dead at 89 |
| | Thankfully she leaves behind some of the best writing on cities ever put to paper. | | | However, as his unchecked power and megalomania grew, he became less concerned with the consequences of his actions. | | | Jane Jacobs, the urban activist whose influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities reshaped thinking about urban communities, died overnight in Toronto. |
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http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/04/25/jane_jacobs_is.php
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| | Toronto is what many American cities wish they could be. | | | Jacobs lived and wrote so famously years ago. | | | One son and his family live right down the block, though, and see her often. |
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http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm
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| | The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
| | Much of what she said, and what she wrote, is relevant to our mission of bringing walking back into the mainstream of American society. | | | Jane Jacobs appeared in San Francisco in spring 2004 to discuss her new book, Dark Age Ahead. | | | So I find it heartening that The Modern Library is issuing this beautiful new edition for a new generation of readers who, I hope, will become interested in city ecology, respect its marvels, and discover more. |
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| | The twilight of civilization csmonitor.com |
| | To support her argument, Jacobs highlights five "stabilizing forces" (she also calls them "pillars") in North America that have been dramatically altered - and not for the better - over the years: | | | More than 40 years after publishing that prescient landmark treatise, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," she once again has proven herself to be one of the most trenchant observers and challenging critics of American culture and character. | | | In her opening sentence, Jacobs writes, "This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book," but throughout its 200 pages, I found it to be far more gloomy than hopeful. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0518/p14s01-bogn.html
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| | Interview with Jane Jacobs |
| | This article may not be published, reposted, or redistributed without express permission from Government Technology magazine. | | | Apart from the many other professions that have been listening to you, now economists, according to press reports, are also beginning to take you seriously. | | | Cities and Web Economies: Interview with Jane Jacobs |
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| | ActiveLiving.org - Jane Jacobs |
| | Forty years after the publication of her seminal book, The Life and Death of Great American Cities, Jacobs continues to court controversy with provocative examinations of city planning, economic theory—even biology. | | | This year Jacobs published her sixth book, Dark Age Ahead, and another is in the works. | | | Despite his defeat, Moses defended his plans in the name of urban renewal, pegging Jacobs as a know-nothing housewife. |
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| | Remembering Jane Jacobs - "On This Day" - CBC Archives |
| | Jacobs was most famous for her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, published in 1961. | | | Jacobs, a self-taught philosopher, challenged the establishment with her ideas about cities and the economy. | | | Jacobs' book has since become a classic and is often cited as the bible for urban planners. |
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http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-1243-6895-11/on_this_day/life_society/jane_jacobs
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| | Dope on the Slope: RIP Jane Jacobs |
| | Jane Jacobs, an urban activist whose seminal book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," informed the "New Urbanism" movement, died today at the age of 89. | | | I know that her experience as a civic activist has been tainted by terrible urban renewal policies from the '40s through the '70s, and that a lot of the really high-profile re/development plans now are unfortunate exercises in greed. | | | Unfortunately, Jane Jacobs and the movement she spawned are currently out of fashion with New York City planners and the architectural mavens in Manhattan. |
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http://meanderthal.typepad.com/dope/2006/04/rip_jane_jacobs.html
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| | SIVACRACY.NET: Jane Jacobs, RIP |
| | Although born and raised in the United States, she came to Canada with her late husband, architect Robert (Bob) Jacobs, in 1969 because they had two sons approaching draft age and they were opposed to the Vietnam War. | | | As a public speaker she was feisty and outspoken, as a citizen she helped bring the Spadina expressway to a screeching halt, but what most people will remember about Jane Jacobs is the way she thought about issues. | | | Jane Jacobs, the urban expert and social activist who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities, died Tuesday morning at Toronto Western Hospital after about a year of up and down health problems. |
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| | OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts |
| | Jacobs believed the most organic and healthy communities are diverse, messy and arise out of spontaneous order, not from a scheme that tries to dictate how people should live and how neighborhoods should look. | | | A working mother with no formal education in urban planning, Jacobs became an icon in the 1960s when she mobilized citizens to fight the redevelopment and highway-construction plans of New York City planning czar Robert Moses, who wielded almost unchecked power over the city's urban development during the mid-20th century. | | | She went on to ridicule the idea of regionalism as "escapism from intellectual helplessness" predicated on the delusion that the problems planners are unable to solve at the local level will somehow be more easily addressed on a larger-scale, concluding that "no other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning." |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110008319
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| | Jane Jacobs |
| | In 1961, Jane Jacobs wrote what is probably the most important book ever written on city planning, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which demolished modernist city planning and set off the revival of old-fashioned neighborhoods that later inspired the New Urbanists. | | | Jane Jacobs Interviewed by Jim Kunstler: Jane Jacobs is interviewed for Metropolis Magazine (March, 2001) by the author of The Geography of Nowhere and other books. | | | Jacobs has the following works on the web: |
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| | THE NATURE OF ECONOMIES, BY JANE JACOBS |
| | I suspect that this answer will not satisfy most readers of this journal who are likely to object that human beings' craving to remove feelings of uneasiness motivates economic development. | | | Yet this insight is not new, for she first developed it in 1969 in The Economy of Cities and it has been the subject of a heated debate in the urban economics and economic geography literature in the last decade (Feldman, forthcoming). | | | In the end, however, I am not convinced that Jacobs' persuasively proves her thesis. |
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| | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town |
| | Jane Jacobs, the matchless analyst of all things urban, returned to New York the other day and looked around her. | | | Jacobs has closely followed the Ground Zero plans and debates, and she thinks that the right thing to do is not to do anything right away. | | | I don’t think people should have such a free hand with other people’s lives.” |
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http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?040517ta_talk_gopnik
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| | BCLS Hosts Jane Jacobs Symposium |
| | Jacobs in essay form, will be published in the spring 2001 edition of the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review. | | | A giant in the field of urban design and planning for more than 40 years, Jane Jacobs published "Death and Life of Great American Cities" in 1961, the first in a series of works devoted to the evolution of cities and urban planning. | | | The book was hailed by the New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning." Her papers have been donated to Boston College as a permanent resource for scholarship in the area of land and urban development, and are housed in the Burns Library. |
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http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/janejacobs.html
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| | Jane Jacobs Prize, Ideas That Matter |
| | The Jane Jacobs Prize was created to discover and celebrate Toronto's original, unsung heroes - by seeking out citizens who are engaged in activities that contribute to the city's vitality. | | | Hundreds of the world's most prominent thinkers and community leaders attended the Toronto event to exchange ideas and celebrate Jacobs' work in the areas of cities, economies and values. | | | Potential recipients of The Jane Jacobs Prize are identified through an extensive, diverse network of spotters who are asked to anonymously nominate candidates. |
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http://ideasthatmatter.com/people/jj-prize.html
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| | GreeneSpace: Jane Jacobs |
| | Though she is best known, and rightly, for The Death and Life of Great American Cities, somehow Paul and I came to her first through her Systems of Survival, where she pits the "guardian syndrome" against the "commercial syndrome," warning against the "monstrous hybrid." | | | It's true that not every new urban development is turning out as she would have hoped. | | | Night before last, I had a vivid dream involving a good friend who lives in Toronto. |
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http://greenespace.blogspot.com/2006/04/jane-jacobs.html
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| | Jane Jacobs's Genius |
| | She reveled in challenging conversation with thoughtful people, listened carefully to citizen testimony at public hearings, never resisted the opportunity to stand up to power and wished only for people to continue the dialogue she started, not duplicate her words. | | | Central to this organization's international workshops on creating policeable places is the concept of "eyes on the street," a term coined by Jacobs in the first of her nine books, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). | | | Bring in architects who know how to create human-scale dwellings for the poor. |
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060515/gratz
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| | The Jane Jacobs Home Page |
| | In order to create "healthy" communities -- communities that are economically, socially, politically, and environmentally vibrant -- as planners we must design and build with the people and all of their various activities, values, and influences in mind. | | | As you explore our projects and the World Wide Web page, we invite you to consider the elements that you believe are necessary for a healthy community. | | | Healthy Cities, Urban Theory, and Design: The Power of Jane Jacobs |
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| | StubHub! Where Fans Buy & Sell Tickets |
| | Find out as soon as Jane Jacobs are available to buy or sell. | | | Jane Jacobs are currently not available on StubHub. | | | Click here to register and be alerted via our newsletter HubBub. |
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