Jane Isabel Jacobs OC OOnt (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced...
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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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November 2024 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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jane-jacobs-in-a-way-kids-can-appreciate-1.4867433 TV interview with Global TVhttps://globalnews.ca/video/4184237/the-legacy-of-jane-jacobs about...
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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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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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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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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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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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Dark Age Ahead (category Books by Jane Jacobs)
Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yaletown. Another person who is credited with influencing Vancouverism is Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Brent Toderian...
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State through its Mitchell-Lama Housing Program. They were championed by Jane Jacobs and intended to be built on a human scale in keeping with her ideals...
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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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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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surname Jacobs include: Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A. J. Jacobs (born 1968), American journalist and author AJ Jacobs (rugby...
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Jane Margaret Jacobs (born 2 May 1958) is an Australian academic, and until 2023 served as Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College and formerly...
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