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.”
Tag: Jane Jacobs
Friday Five: What I've been reading
Five posts I’ve found interesting over the past seven days
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.
Cars ≠ Freedom
Car companies sell freedom and mobility, but in fact offer only gridlock, poor land use, health problems, and global warming.
A Mallrat Repents
Malls R Us is a provocative documentary that looks at North America’s love affair will the mall.
What is Placemaking?
Placemaking is “creating a sense of place and a place of sense”
Jane Jacobs, Gentrifier?
Prof. Sharon Zukin argues that Jacobs had “a gentrifier’s appreciation of urban authenticity” in her new book, Naked City.
GOOD.is on Jane Jacobs—’Reading a City’
Jane Jacobs wrote about the “ballet” of the street when describing the rhythm of her Greenwich Village neighborhood, which she viewed as a choreographed exchange between resident and sidewalk, and shopkeeper and stoop.
DPJ Article: Three New 'R's: Rezone, Reuse and Revitalize — The City of Phoenix's Adaptive Reuse Program
Over the past two years, amidst all the new buildings popping up, Downtown Phoenix has quietly become a national leader in promoting adaptive reuse.
Walk this Way: Jane’s Walk Phoenix is profiled in Sunset
What started with a Twitter conversation with an incredulous magazine editor, become a reality.