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Jane Jacobs Kicked Off Intertwined Revolutions Of Early 1960s

1961 marked an extraordinary year for urbanism, with the publication of Death and life of Great American Cities, and also foreshadowed two other intellectual and social revolutions led by women: environmentalism and feminism.
27 December 2011 - 5:00am
California Planning & Development Report

The Power of Jane Jacobs' "Web Way of Thinking"

With the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities coming to a close, Michael Mehaffy refutes the contrarians and clarifies Jacobs' lasting "Top 10" observations found in the incredibly influential book.
15 December 2011 - 11:40am
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The Marginalization of Jane Jacobs and Women Planners

Roberta Brandes Gratz writes that "When we talk about strategies for city growth and economic development, women aren't often offered seats at the table." Jacobs was the exception, and represented a challenge to male-dominated planning.
18 November 2011 - 11:00am
The Atlantic Cities

Jane Jacobs' Masterpiece, 50 Years Later

Anthony Flint looks at the legacy of Jane Jacobs upon the 50th anniversary of the release of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."
14 November 2011 - 2:00pm
The Boston Globe
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Have We Reached "Peak Male"?

Elizabeth Farrelly poses that as we get more connected via the internet and social networking, the female traits of connectivity and relationship-building are ascendant and may mean a new feminine paradigm for city-building.
18 September 2011 - 1:00pm
The Age
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Would Jane Jacobs Approve of Janette Sadik-Khan?

With a new edition of The Death and Life of Great American Cities releasing this week, Sam Lewis looks at a handful of "planebrities" to see how they would measure up for Ms. Jacobs.
17 September 2011 - 1:00pm
WNET

Ed Glaeser Refutes Jane Jacobs

Glaeser argues that Jane Jacobs was attempting to preserve affordability with her historic preservation efforts, which he says is wrong-headed.
29 July 2011 - 9:00am
Governing Magazine

Jane Jacobs Speaks

Kaid Benfield shares this video from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that includes audio and video of Jane Jacobs, a rarity.
23 July 2011 - 1:00pm
SustainableCitiesCollective

The "Trivial Profession" of Urban Planning

In the new book of essays Reconsidering Jane Jacobs, Thomas J. Campanella says that noteworthy to practicing planners in 2011 is the final essay by Thomas J. Campanella wonders if urban planning is at risk of becoming trivial.
15 June 2011 - 5:00am
South Bend Examiner

REVIEW: Ken Greenberg's Walking Home

Urban designer and architect Ken Greenberg writes "an eloquent, personal, compelling and persuasive argument for more enlightened city-building," says Michael Dudley in this review of Greenberg's new book, Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder.
26 May 2011 - 10:13am

Jane Jacobs' Complex Legacy

On the occasion of Jane Jacobs' birthday (and the international "Jane's Walks" held in her honor), Stephen Wickens muses on Jane Jacobs' legacy and the ways in which her ideas are used -- and misused -- in an age of superficial mass media.
11 May 2011 - 1:00pm
Globe and Mail

Jane Jacobs' Legacy Lives On

Architecture critic Christopher Hume writes an homage to urban planning icon Jane Jacobs, highlighting the resiliency of her positions on density and diversity.
6 May 2011 - 2:00pm
Toronto Star

The Warhol Community

In comparing the legacies of artist Andy Warhol and urban thinker Jane Jacobs, this essay suggests that the sort of urban community we think of today is more a result of Warhol.
6 May 2011 - 7:00am
Places
Samuel Staley

Jane Jacobs on "Truth," Discovery and the Future of the Soviet Union

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 09:47

As just about everyone in the planning profession now knows, this is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by urbanist icon Jane Jacobs. While Death and Life was itself iconic, Jane Jacobs was also a great public intellectual who continually built on her ideas in subsequent books and articles. 

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Taking a Hike in Jane Jacobs' Hometown of Scranton

Community leaders hope to raise awareness and the profile of a beloved city daughter.
1 May 2011 - 5:00am
The Scranton Times Tribune

Jane Jacobs and the Downfall of Planning

Is urban planning losing its relevance as a profession? Some say yes. In this essay from Places, Thomas Campanella suggests that the roots of this fall from grace lie in the era of Jane Jacobs.
27 April 2011 - 2:00pm
Places

Planners and the Jane Jacobs Conundrum

When it comes to Jane Jacobs, planners pick and choose what they find useful, says Roberta Brandes Gratz, missing Jacobs central argument for grass-roots, bottom-up planning. Gratz reviews a new book "Reconsidering Jane Jacobs."
25 April 2011 - 9:03am
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Enough With the 'Enough with Jane Jacobs' Already!

Was Jane Jacobs a NIMBY? Did she despise density? These sort of reevaluations of Jacobs' legacy are hot at the moment. Roberta Brandes Gratz explains why the naysayers are off base.
24 January 2011 - 8:29am
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The Jacobs Legacy

Jarrett Murphy reviews The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs" by Roberta Brandes Gratz, and concludes that it is a nuanced interpretation of the classic showdown.
13 January 2011 - 10:00am
City Limits

Physicist Tackles Urban Theory

Physicist Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute applied his talents to unraveling urban issues like population growth in a similar vein that he did earlier with biology. He found answers that explain how all cities work if enough data is supplied.
20 December 2010 - 6:00am
The New York Times - Magazine
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