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Fast Company Picks 'Fast Cities 2008'

(Illinois, Best Cities, Chicago, Economic Development, London, Rankings, Social / Demographics, Technology, Vibrancy) ...

news - Tim Halbur - 5 Jun 2008 - 6:00am - 0 comments

Remembering Jane Jacobs

(World, Architecture, Community / Economic Development, Features, Government / Politics, History / Preservation, Social / Demographics, Urban Development / Real Estate) ...

article - David Gest - 30 Apr 2006 - 11:48pm - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Top 10 Books - 2005

... Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs (Random House, New York) Ever since publishing her ...

Book page - Abhijeet Chavan - 2 Jul 2008 - 2:04pm - 0 comments - 10 attachments

A Journalistic View of Cities

... of our profession was largely shaped by a journalist – Jane Jacobs. The Death Life of Great American Cities was read by planners and ...

Blog entry - Scott Page - 26 Jun 2008 - 11:09am - 3 comments

Two Things People Hate: Density and Sprawl

... all pedestrian first, fine grained areas. William Whyte, Jane Jacobs, and Kevin Lynch all have written extensively on the subject. As ...

Blog entry - Barbara Faga - 26 Mar 2008 - 3:13pm - 16 comments

Planetizen Turns 8: A Look Back

(World, Community / Economic Development, Features, Land Use, Transportation, Urban Development / Real Estate) ...

article - Nate Berg - 16 Jun 2008 - 8:54am - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Blended Urban Reality: What Would Jane Jacobs Think of Facebook?

... , Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language , and Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities . The idea was to get them ...

Blog entry - Anthony Townsend - 6 Dec 2007 - 11:24am - 0 comments

Jane Jacobs: Right Questions, Wrong Neighborhoods

Notwithstanding that "no one 'got' the city like Jane Jacobs", her book had little impact on America. "But for all her wisdom, ...

news - David Gest - 10 May 2006 - 11:00am - 5 comments

People Like Cars, And There's Not Much You Can Do About It

... was doing, they organized and largely stopped it, a la Jane Jacobs' vs. Robert Moses. However, I do agree that gas prices, not urban ...

Blog entry - Christian Peralta - 7 May 2008 - 10:41am - 9 comments

How Best To Remember Jane Jacobs?

(Canada, History / Preservation) ...

news - Michael Dudley - 18 Oct 2006 - 12:00pm - 0 comments