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Jane Jacobs OC OOnt ( née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
Aug 14, 2019 · American and Canadian writer and activist Jane Jacobs transformed the field of urban planning with her writing about American cities and her grass-roots organizing. She led resistance to the wholesale replacement of urban communities with high rise buildings and the loss of community to expressways.
Jul 9, 2021 · In 1958, urban activist Jane Jacobs wrote a piece for Fortune magazine entitled “Downtown is for People”. Like The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the now-classic book she...
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail, that now seem like common ...
In 2005, in collaboration with Jane Jacobs, a small group of accomplished urbanists and activists founded The Center for the Living City to build on Ms. Jacobs’ work. The Center’s purpose is to expand the understanding of contemporary urban life and inspire civic engagement and creative responses for the urgent advancement of social ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Jane Jacobs (born May 4, 1916, Scranton, Pa., U.S.—died April 25, 2006, Toronto, Ont., Can.) was an American-born Canadian urbanologist noted for her clear and original observations on urban life and its problems.
May 4, 2016 · J ane Jacobs, the woman who defended the vibrancy and diversity of city life against urban planners who sought to tear down slums, was born 100 years ago Wednesday. TIME once called her “the...
Oct 21, 2021 · THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES by Jane Jacobs | Review first published Nov. 5, 1961. One of the most memorable caricatures by Max Beerbohm shows George Bernard Shaw’s view of the...
Sep 19, 2016 · Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts. What the urbanist and writer got so right about cities—and what she got wrong. By Adam Gopnik. September 19, 2016. Jacobs, in 1969: an ordinary mom who set out to...
May 19, 2008 · Jane Isabel Jacobs, nee Butzner, author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist and philosopher (born 4 May 1916 in Scranton, PA; died 25 April 2006 in Toronto). Jacobs earned renown for her books, beginning with The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961).
