In a way, Jane Jacobs, who died this week, did to urban renewal what Rachel Carson did to DDT and Ralph Nader did to the Corvair. The Death and Life of Great American Cities marked Jane Jacobs as one ...

Jane Jacobs at a 1961 press conference for the Committee to Save the West Village (photo by Phil Stanziola, via Library of Congress/Wikimedia) I would like it to be understood, and increasingly ...

Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing. By Michael Kimmelman Over its several decades, the show’s setting has always ...

Video produced by Don Downey. View from Villa Serbellino at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center The programming included 3 minute Pecha Kuccha presentations on examples today that represented ...

What was lost in the process was harder to quantify: the density of small businesses, the overlapping networks of suppliers and customers, the informal economic relationships that give neighborhoods ...

SCRANTON – The second biennial Observe Scranton celebration of late urbanist guru and Scranton native Jane Jacobs will highlight a mixed-use “village” arising out of blighted blocks of the former ...

A pedestrian passage, Paseo de Artista, was included in the original plan of La Fénix. This is the second part of a two-part series on architecture at 16th and Mission streets. Read the first part ...

Jane Jacobs, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, never earned a college degree and never held a formal academic position. But her ideas, put forward in The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jane Jacobs is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Speech. The year with the highest average number of views per program was ...