Comments on: Jane Jacobs

By: Craig Allen: The Funk Zone May Offer a Unique Investment Opportunity

Craig Allen: The Funk Zone May Offer a Unique Investment Opportunity — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:08:50 +0000

[...] to make way for the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and was almost demolished before urbanologist Jane Jacobs led strong opposition based on the historical significance of the architecture of the buildings [...]

By: BURNAWAY » Infrastructures for People: A New Urban Revolution on Display at MODA

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:18:22 +0000

[...] happy people of multiple races lounging on green lawns, bikes, buildings, American Indians, Jane Jacobs, a bride and groom, a string quartet, Michelle Obama in a contemporary victory garden. The whole [...]

By: Chris London defends passionate stance over the civil rights issue of our time. 'Who said I'm jealous of Peter Davis?!'

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:59:44 +0000

[...] I really care about being one of the “Fashionable Elite”? My heroes are people like Jane Jacobs, Norman Mailer, Lenny Bruce, Jack Kerouac,Jimmy Breslin, Chris Hedges, Joseph [...]

By: lawrencevillelions.org » Parking lots cause lots of problems, inspire lots of quotes and, once upon a time, started a movement

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:00:23 +0000

[...] he’s not alone in his thinking. Here’s Donald Shoup quoting Jane Jacobs on how parking lots affect the sidewalks they border and the city at large: “The presence of [...]

By: Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) » Parking lots cause lots of problems, inspire lots of quotes and, once upon a time, started a movement

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:40:07 +0000

[...] he’s not alone in his thinking. Here’s Donald Shoup quoting Jane Jacobs on how parking lots affect the sidewalks they border and the city at large: “The presence of [...]

By: Zawp Bilbao » Blog Archive » Karmeloren Larunbatak

Zawp Bilbao » Blog Archive » Karmeloren Larunbatak — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:27:01 +0000

[...] el fin de semana del 7-8 de Mayo celebramos en ZAWP Bilbao un homenaje a la obra de Jane Jacobs que unimos con el fallo y la entrega de premios del concurso de Literatura que se abrió en el [...]

By: Zawp Bilbao » Blog Archive » 7 Mayo: Jane Jacobs y Entrega de Premios Concurso Literatura

Wed, 11 May 2011 19:59:30 +0000

[...] un evento en el que integramos varias actividades,entre ellas, un homenaje a la obra de Jane Jacobs con un paseo en tren por la Ribera de Deusto y Zorrozaurre, el fallo y la entrega de premios del [...]

By: Zawp Bilbao » Blog Archive » 7 Mayo: Jane Jacobs y Entrega de Premios Concurso Literatura

Wed, 04 May 2011 10:43:03 +0000

[...] un evento en el que integraremos varias actividades, entre ellas, un homenaje a la obra de Jane Jacobs con un paseo en tren por la Ribera de Deusto y Zorrozaurre, el fallo y la entrega de premios del [...]

By: Journal Square, Old and New | Discard Studies

Journal Square, Old and New | Discard Studies — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:45:11 +0000

[...] set of cultural patterns we call civilization.” “In the new urbanism,” he writes (in a very Jane Jacobs style), “the meaning of the street as the essential fabric of the public realm is restored. The [...]

By: The Public Blog» Blog Archive » Fifteen Women Who Rule the Biking World

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:38:12 +0000

[...] Jacobs who is something like the Mother Theresa of the Livable Cities movement. Her seminal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) is a classic read for all students of urban design and a textbook on why grassroots efforts [...]

By: Tiger behält den Überblick « Asphalttiger's Blog

Tiger behält den Überblick « Asphalttiger's Blog — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:40:02 +0000

[...] hat heute wieder etwas dazu gelernt. Tiger denkt an Jane Jacobs (Ich Tiger, du Jane). Wie wichtig es doch ist, Räume zu schaffen, in denen gemeinsames Leben [...]

By: John Slattery, Walt Disney, and Jane Jacobs » Jay Goldman

John Slattery, Walt Disney, and Jane Jacobs » Jay Goldman — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:42:36 +0000

[...] low-density, suburban residential areas. Walt’s original film came out five years after Jane Jacob’s seminal urban planning work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which argued (I would [...]

By: hans.gerwitz - Bloodletting went wild here.

hans.gerwitz - Bloodletting went wild here. — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:50:11 +0000

[...] Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961 [Emphasis mine] [...]

By: Assignment 4; Read and Review « 'well behaved women, rarely make history.'

Assignment 4; Read and Review « 'well behaved women, rarely make history.' — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:36:08 +0000

[...] http://www.pps.org/articles/jjacobs-2/ [...]

By: IYRTP: Objectivity in News Reporting is a Myth | AltDaily : Creating and celebrating local culture in Norfolk and all of Hampton Roads.

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:54:18 +0000

[...] Meet My New Girlfriend, Jane Jacobs [...]

By: Healthy Cities Help Raise Children « Design and Community

Healthy Cities Help Raise Children « Design and Community — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:08:26 +0000

[...] early as the 1950’s, that prescient urbanist Jane Jacobs lamented the geographic cleaving of North American cities along the lines of age and gender. [...]

By: Do Community Gardens Deter Crime?

Do Community Gardens Deter Crime? — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:19:41 +0000

[...] The protests against a highway through Strathcona in the 1960s led by urban activist Jane Jacobs spurred a number of similar campaigns in Canada and the US. The pride and passion residents have [...]

By: Urban Media Archaeology » Radio Lab about Cities

Urban Media Archaeology » Radio Lab about Cities — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:07:16 +0000

[...] I heard a cart for this week's Radio Lab which will be about cities. They haven't written anything about the forthcoming show on their website, but it sounds like it will feature the voice of a scruffy old man and probably something about Jane Jacobs. [...]

By: Other Development Possibilities and the Quarry. | Marvin Macaraig

Other Development Possibilities and the Quarry. | Marvin Macaraig — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:40:04 +0000

[...] reflection, the Artscape Wychwood Barns project, really is a shining example of the classic Jane Jacobs quote of “Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old [...]

By: What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs « Preservation in Pink

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:03:58 +0000

[...] visit the What We See website. To read more about Jane Jacobs read a mini-biography of Jane on the Project for Public Spaces. Buy the book [...]

By: AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS? | London in New York

AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS? | London in New York — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:30 +0000

[...] pockets or be well known or famous. I am the anti famous and that is fine with me. In the words of Jane Jacobs, “I do not know who this celebrity called Jane Jacobs is. It’s not me. You either do [...]

By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » The Unsung: Lost Stories of New York Urban Renewal

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:56:10 +0000

[...] New York. In this original post, Zipp moves beyond the well-known personalities of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, profiling another cast of characters who molded and shaped the city we know today. For fun facts, [...]

By: Old Life Theological Society » Blog Archive » The Corporate Gullibility of the Church

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:15:31 +0000

[...] lot better about Keller’s assertions about cities if he referred to names I do know about, like Jane Jacobs who singlehandedly saved neighborhoods in New York City from awful urban design, or Howard Kunstler [...]

By: City Design before her Time « Civic Explorer's Blog

City Design before her Time « Civic Explorer's Blog — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:21:10 +0000

[...] Project for Public Spaces Summarized some of Jane Jacobs key contributions: [...]