Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs OC OOntwas an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies. Her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Citiesargued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers. The book also introduced sociological concepts such as "eyes on the street" and "social capital"...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1916
CityScranton, PA
students wonder enough
One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.
mean improvement feedback
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole
nuclear foundation trouble
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
fashion men intellectual
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
women effort repetition
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
dark past age
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
romantic moving may
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
too-much littles building
We expect too much of new # buildings , and too little of ourselves.
grateful independent people
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.
cities dwelling downtown
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.
animal cities car
The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.
presentation
The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.
running jail government
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
cities diversity needs
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.