Jane Jacobs, OC OOnt (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well known for organizing grassroots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and after moving to Canada in 1968, equally influential in canceling the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of highways under construction.
Jane Butzner was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a doctor and a former teacher and nurse, who were Protestant in a heavily Roman Catholic town. After graduating from Scranton's Central High School, she took an unpaid position as the assistant to the women's page editor at the Scranton Tribune. A year later, in the middle of the Great Depression, she left Scranton for New York City.
Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. He changed shorelines, built bridges, tunnels and roadways, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.
Never elected to public office, Moses was responsible for the creation and leadership of numerous public authorities which he could control without having to answer to the general public or to elected officials. It is due to Moses that there are a disproportionate number of public benefit corporations in New York state, which are the prime mode of infrastructure building and maintenance in New York, and are currently responsible for 90% of the state's debt. As head of various authorities, he controlled millions in income from his projects' revenue generation, such as tolls, and he had the power to issue bonds to borrow vast sums, allowing him to initiate new ventures with little or no approval from legislative bodies, bypassing the usual power of the purse as it normally functioned in the United States, and the cumbersome process of citizen comment on major public works.
Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: Urban Fight of the Century
Jane Jacobs on the nature of economies
Jane Jacobs: Neighborhoods in Action
Parting Words: Jane Jacobs (Dark Age Ahead)
Remembering Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs at the National Building Museum
Jane Jacobs on urban design of Toronto & Montreal circa 1969
J. Jacobs y la defensa de la ciudad compleja y diversa (URBAN 7/10)
Jane Jacobs - The Little Woman That Could
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs: "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."
Biography - JJ - Jane Jacobs - Guru of Urban Planning - Inner City defender
Jane Jacobs
Urban Forum: What Would Jane Jacobs Do?
Plot
Young Kerstin Norbäck lives in a small town. She has a relationship with a sailor, but when she tries to leave him, he shoots her. She survives and begins a new life in Stockholm. There she meets kind people and new friends but the newspapers find her and start to write about her.
Keywords: based-on-novel, boardinghouse, courtroom, doctor, editor, falling-down-stairs, für-elise, gunfire, gunshot-wound, jail
Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: Urban Fight of the Century
Jane Jacobs on the nature of economies
Jane Jacobs: Neighborhoods in Action
Parting Words: Jane Jacobs (Dark Age Ahead)
Remembering Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs at the National Building Museum
Jane Jacobs on urban design of Toronto & Montreal circa 1969
J. Jacobs y la defensa de la ciudad compleja y diversa (URBAN 7/10)
Jane Jacobs - The Little Woman That Could
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs: "The Death and Life of Great American Cities."
Biography - JJ - Jane Jacobs - Guru of Urban Planning - Inner City defender
Jane Jacobs
Urban Forum: What Would Jane Jacobs Do?
Jane Jacobs On Writing
Pro Shag Competition - 1989 - Bob and Jane Jacobs - Third Dance
Can One Woman (Still) Make A Difference? Jane Jacobs and NYC
jane jacobs vs. philadelphia
JANE JACOBS PRIMER RECORRIDO TUCUMAN-ARGENTINA
Developing an Opera about Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses
Jane Jacobs - "Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Associations" (1 of 3)
Jane Jacobs' "Curse of Border Vacuums".mov
Jane Jacobs Walk Images
Good Rocking People Jr Shagger Jeremy Webb interview and dance with Jane Jacobs
2008 Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism Winner Alexie Torres-Fleming
Jane Jacobs: Philadelphia Part 1
Jane Jacobs: Philadelphia Part 2
An interview with Mikael Colville-Andersen
Jane Jacobs and What Makes Cities Great - Bijoy Goswami
Jane Jacobs: Libertarian Outsider | by Jeff Riggenbach
Calvin Harris feat. John Newman - Blame (Jacob Plant Remix) [Audio]
Jane Jacobs Welcomes Bob Clampett To Toronto 1978.
The Burning Would: Film by Marshall McLuhan and Jane Jacobs
Eb Zeidler - Jane Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award
2010 Jane Jacobs Prize Ceremony
Jane Jacobs Medal Awarded to NYRP Founder Bette Midler
Fifth Harmony, Jasmine V., Jacob Whitesides & Mahogany Lox - Uptown Funk
Vancouver 1960s freeway protests
2011 Jane Jacobs Medal Recipient Janette Sadik-Khan