Jane Jacobs (1916–2006)
Forfatter af The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Jane Jacobs lives in Toronto. (Publisher Provided) Author and community activist Jane Jacobs was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on May 4, 1916. She spent two years at Columbia University in the School of General Studies. She was interrogated by the U.S. government over her loyality to the country vis mere on March 25, 1952 and was arrested during a demonstration against the Vietnam War on April 10, 1968. She also helped defeat a plan, proposed by the New York City park commissioner Robert Moses, to build an expressway through Washington Square in the early 1960s. She moved to Toronto in 1969 partially because of her objection to the Vietnam War. She became a Canadian citizen in 1974. Her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, is a critique of 1950's urban renewal policies which, according to her, destroyed communities and created isolated, unnatural urban spaces. She received numerous honors including a lifetime achievement award from the National Building Foundation in 2000 and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1996. In 1997, the Jane Jacobs prize was created by the City of Toronto at the Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter conference. She died on April 25, 2006 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Jane Jacobs
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1992) 363 eksemplarer
The Nature of Economies 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece (1997) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 261 eksemplarer
Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century (1970) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Jacobs, Jane
- Juridisk navn
- Butzner, Jane Isabel (birth)
- Fødselsdato
- 1916-05-04
- Dødsdag
- 2006-04-25
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA (birth)
Canada - Fødested
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
- Dødssted
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Dødsårsag
- stroke
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA - Uddannelse
- Columbia University
- Erhverv
- journalist
activist
author
editor
urban planner - Relationer
- Breece, Hannah (great-aunt)
Butzner, John D., Jr. (brother) - Organisationer
- Architectural Forum
Office of War Information - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Vincent Scully Award (2000)
Officer, Order of Canada (1996)
Order of Ontario (2000)
American Sociological Association, Outstanding Lifetime Contribution award (2002) - Kort biografi
- Jane Jacobs, a journalist and writer, successfully led grassroots opposition to a massive urban renewal project in the 1950s and 1960s that would have destroyed several residential neighborhoods in lower Manhattan. She endured scorn from establishment figures because of her lack of formal training as an urban planner, and moved to Canada in 1968. There she continued her work and writing on urbanism, economies and social issues. Her most influential book was The Death and Life of Great American Cities, published in 1961.
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Very informative, but got repetitive after a while. One can only use the adjective 'lively' so many times before it gets old...
Deserving of its reputation as one of the most important books ever written in the field of American City Planning. It is a fascinating book, and I will never look at cities the same after reading it.
Jane Jacobs does a remarkable job of breaking down an incredible complex topic, making easily digestible, providing examples of good and bad, and building off of the idea in order to introduce her next idea.
She is not a planner, or engineer, or academic. Just a concerned citizen, who has a really good eye for understanding the complex processes of cities, and how they function. She also has a pretty compelling way with words, I really enjoyed some of her prose at times, and her extended metaphors could really have a lot of teeth.… (mere)
Jane Jacobs does a remarkable job of breaking down an incredible complex topic, making easily digestible, providing examples of good and bad, and building off of the idea in order to introduce her next idea.
She is not a planner, or engineer, or academic. Just a concerned citizen, who has a really good eye for understanding the complex processes of cities, and how they function. She also has a pretty compelling way with words, I really enjoyed some of her prose at times, and her extended metaphors could really have a lot of teeth.… (mere)
Jacobs is an interesting writer, and clearly very well-read. Also a fascinating person. This book contains some interesting ideas. She leans heavily on Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond. Dark Age Ahead, however, is not a very "focused" book. Kind of rambling. Well written rambling.
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Jacobs’s ideal neighbourhood, where kids play in the street under the watchful eyes of neighbours and local tradespeople and there is a constant coming and going on foot between homes, shops, workplaces, schools, bars and restaurants, is probably rather unrealistic sixty years on, and of course it was only ever meant to apply to inner-city areas — as far as she is concerned, the suburbs are a lost cause anyway. But the arguments she makes against single-use zoning and against inflexible large-scale projects embodying someone’s paternalistic vision of how (other) people should live remain very valid. And there’s a lot of detailed and mostly sensible-sounding advice in the book about things like street layout, rent subsidies, lending policies, how to lay out parks, and much more.… (mere)