My friend, Nick Bastien, who participated in last years Walk, wrote this great post on this year’s Jane’s Walk, complete with a short video interview. Enjoy, and be sure to check out the original at RailLife.com Jane’s Walk is back in Phoenix for a second annual stroll through the city. This year, the walk will…
Category: Video
David Owen on Great American Cities
A short video of author and New Yorker writer David Owen on “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” influenced his writing of “Green Metropolis.”
Robert Moses Meets His Match
It was Robert Moses plans for a Lower Manhattan Expressway in 1962 that Jane Jacobs perhaps was most famous for opposing.
Jane Jacobs: Parting Words
Jane Jacobs: Parting Words (2007) from Kevin Balmer on Vimeo.This longer (20 min) video captures Jane Jacobs in one of her last public appearances in Portland Oregon. On tour to promote her book, Dark Age Ahead (2004), Jacobs discusses the imperative for culturally diverse and innovative cities, among many other issues. I was lucky enough…
Robert Crumb—A Short History of America
Robert Crumb’s ‘Short History of America’ series is an urbanist classic. (First in a three post series)
President Obama on Jane Jacobs
Barack Obama answers a question from a man about urban renewal in Toledo, Ohio on August 31, 2008.