Jane Jacobs OC OOnt (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban...
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American baseball player Jane M. Jacobs (born 1958), Australian cultural geographer and academic Jacobs (surname) Jacobs (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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February 2011. Jacobs, Jane (1984). Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394480473. Hill, David (1988). "Jane Jacobs' Ideas on Big...
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Memorial & Museum.[citation needed] In 2011, she was presented with the Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership from The Rockefeller Foundation and The...
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Zukin is often called a critic of the work of Jane Jacobs, she is also an admirer. Zukin has called Jacobs “the iconic urban writer, against whom other...
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Higgins, North Carolina (section Jane Jacobs)
"Henry", it was a case study in Cities and the Wealth of Nations, by Jane Jacobs, who spent six months there in 1934. Higgins is on the Cane River and...
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right-handed. Jane Jacobs was not a hard thrower, but her underhand fastball fooled batters because she was basically a curveball pitcher. Jacobs hurled an...
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concepts behind placemaking originated in the 1960s, when writers like Jane Jacobs and William H. Whyte offered groundbreaking ideas about designing cities...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (category Books by Jane Jacobs)
Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs. The book is a critique of 1950s urban planning policy, which it holds...
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on the works of Jane Jacobs, especially her most influential work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In the 1960s, Jacobs criticized the modern...
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010. Jacobs, Jane (1961), The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York: Random House, OL 5820238M. Ranasinghe, P (2012), "Jane Jacobs' framing...
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Paul Ritter (architect) (section Views on Jane Jacobs)
this the two individuals "cooperated on virtually all other issues". Jane Jacobs's 1961 work The Death and Life of Great American Cities was criticised...
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sales. In her pivotal book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs includes the stoop as part of her model of the self-regulating urban...
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ethic inspired by Jane Jacobs, writing in 2006, "Big projects are a necessary part of the diversity, competition and growth that both Jacobs and Moses fought...
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the City of Vancouver says of Jacobs: "There isn't a person or book more influential in creating 'Vancouverism' than Jane and The Death and Life ... I...
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was overly concerned with aesthetics at the expense of social reform; Jane Jacobs referred to the movement as an "architectural design cult." The movement...
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came under heavy criticism in the late 1950s by many critics such as Jane Jacobs, in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Some of...
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as 481st richest person in the world. Jacobs was born in 1940, the son of Genevieve (née Bibby) and Louis Jacobs. His mother was of Irish Catholic descent...
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Kibitzer which is based on the 1929 three-act comedy play by the same name. Jane Jacobs describes a kibitzer as someone who keeps a look-out on a street, and...
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David Harvey Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) Arata Isozaki Allan Jacobs (1928) Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) Rem Koolhaas (1944)...
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maintaining sustainability standards. Similarly, in the early 21st century, Jane Jacobs's writings on legal and political perspectives to emphasize the interests...
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Alexander, Peter Calthorpe, Gordon Cullen, Andrés Duany, Jane Jacobs, Jan Gehl, Allan B. Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Robert Venturi, William...
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Hitler (1889–1945) Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679 ) Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) Alireza Jafarzadeh Michael Johns (born 1964) Agha Shorish...
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the urban commentator Jane Jacobs are widely regarded as having had the largest influence on the urban village concept. Jacobs rejected the modernist...
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city. The antithesis to these practices came from activist and writer, Jane Jacobs, who was a major proponent of mixed-use zoning, believing it played a...
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Mary Jane Jacob is an American curator, writer, and educator from Chicago, Illinois. She is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,...
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changed the least out of the city's initial squares. Journalist and author Jane Jacobs wrote about two main ideas in Cret's redesign: intricacy and centering...
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and/or often simply to survive. The historian and philosopher of urbanism Jane Jacobs remarked in an interview with Stewart Brand that with the Fall of Rome...
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African rugby referee Aad Jacobs (born 1936), Dutch businessman Abe Jacobs (1928–2023), New Zealand professional wrestler Adolph Jacobs (1939–2014), American...
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One of his most vocal critics during this time was the urban activist Jane Jacobs, whose book The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instrumental...
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