Jane jacobs

What the urbanist and writer got so right about cities—and what she got wrong.

Jane Jacobs

"Citizen Jane" features compelling archival footage and photos, and a range of figures such as Mary Rowe, Michael Sorkin, Ed Koch, and Paul Goldberger.

Ever prescient, her final book outlined a coming dark age—and how to get through it.

Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses had different visions and approaches for building better cities. But that's putting it mildly. Very mildly.

Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs ideas about 'mixed use' and 'eyes on the street' have been embraced by cities across North America. For years, Sam Sullivan worshipped at her altar. But when he served as Vancouver's Mayor in the mid 2000s, Sullivan says he realized that the planning evolution she started had resulted in sprawl, greenhouse gases and high housing prices.

A true original who inspired a generation with her writings and activism in support of community-based planning.

How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented – and corrupted.

“We need art, in the arrangements of cities as well as in the other realms of life, to help explain life to us, to show us meanings, to illuminate the relationship between the life that each of us embodies and the life outside us. We need art most, perhaps, to reassure us of our own humanity.” “Whe