A great video produced by the Active Living Network. It features an interview with the urban goddess herself.
Category: Jane Jacobs
A Tour of Bob Dylan’s—and Jane Jacobs’—Greenwich Village
While this video focused on Dylan’s haunts in Greenwich Village, it isn’t hard to imagine Jane hanging out and many of them as well.
Jane Jacobs on her Book “Dark Age Ahead”
Original broadcast May 2004. Jane Jacobs, visionary, activist, and guru of urban planning, talks about her last book, Dark Age Ahead
Jane Jacobs: The Little Woman That Could
An exploration of urbanist Jane Jacobs and her criticism of orthodox city planning based on her book, The Death and Life of American Cities”.
Book Review: Jane Jacobs and the Genius of Common Sense
In my quest to understand the life, work and impact of Jane Jacobs, I have read almost every book, by or about Jane. One book that I had put off reading was Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch….
2010 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award Winner Announced
The Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award recognizes an outstanding book that exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication.
Channeling Jane Jacobs
This video from last summer show activists channeling the spirit (and iconic looks) of Jane Jacobs to help advance their cause: New York City honored Jane Jacobs by naming Hudson Street Jane Jacobs way. Jane fought to preserve neighborhoods and communities, Save Coney Island paid a visit to the ceremony to remind the city what Jane…
Is it time to move beyond Jane Jacobs?
We used to say we plan at the scale of Robert Moses, but we judge ourselves by the standard of Jane Jacobs. That’s not really true anymore.
Stephen Goldsmith, Editor of What We See, in Gothamist
On Tuesday, I posted a review of the book What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs. As I mentioned in the review, one of the books editors was Stephen Goldsmith. At the time of the book’s publication, Stephen wrote a post for Gothamist on the life and legacy of Jane Jacobs. Here is what…
Book Review—What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
In What We See, 30 essayists try to make sense of their own cities or situations in light of what Jane Jacobs’ observed.