Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs: A Public Celebration

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Jane Jacobs: A Public CelebrationWednesday, June 28 at 5:00 pm, rain or shine. Washington Square ParkMeet in front of the Arch, site of Jacobs’ first victory over Robert Moses. Speakers will represent different aspects of her life and work, journalism, environmentalism, economics, publishing, civic activism, the arts, and local business on Jane Jacobs’ impact and […]

Jane Jacobs Tribute Tonight

By Aaron Naparstek | | 1 Comment
There will be a public celebration for Jane Jacobs this evening, 5:00 pm, under the arch in Washington Square Park. Lisa Chamerblain will be there and has a nice write-up on her blog, Polis: It has become the contrarian fashion to say that Jane Jacobs’ contribution to urban planning didn’t address many of the problems […]

555 Hudson Street

By Aaron Naparstek | | 8 Comments
Jane Jacobs lived at 555 Hudson Street when she wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." I happened to be in the neighborhood yesterday afternoon and I saw this bouquet of flowers and card on the front door. The card reads, "Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006. From this house, in 1961, a housewife changed the […]

Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006

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One of the most influential urban thinkers, writers, and activists of the 20th century dies at age 89 in Toronto, Canada. "I enthusiastically endorse the campaign to close Central Park’s loop drive to regular automobile traffic. We had the same sort of fight in Washington Square Park in the late 1950s and in my neighborhood […]