A great video on creating the “greatest, greenest big city in the world.”
Tag: New York City
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces: The Street Corner
A clip of William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces that looks at why some open spaces of cities work for people and others don’t.
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.
Manhattan According to Woody Allen
The opening sequence from Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”
Friday 5: Urban miscellany from Sept 11th-17th
Five of the most interesting posts on urbanism that I read in the past week:
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…
To Read: The Battle For Gotham
An excerpt from “The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs” by urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz
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.
‘Schelling’ the City
The other day I asked a simple question on Twitter and Facebook…