“and then to learn that the city is thinking up schemes to make it uninhabitable.”
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Jane Jacobs
Jane Isabel Jacobs was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
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culture · American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006) · journalist · urban planner · writer · sociologist · author · economist · activist · also Jane Jacobs, Jacobs
Born 4 May 1916 · Died 25 April 2006 · Q234335
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2026· 5 entries
“liberty from ordinary responsibility”
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“s coup de theatre was to start her book not with what she called the”
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“Cities, to thrive in the twenty-first century, must separate themselves politically from their surrounding areas.”
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The Guardian: Of all England’s great Black footballers, none has been the defining national figure. Until Jude Bellingham | Calum Jacobs
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2022· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,037 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Caro told an interviewer about the difficulty in cutting more than 300,000 words from his initial manuscript: "The section that I wrote on Jane Jacobs disappeared
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2016· 1 entry
To mark the hundredth birth anniversary of Jane Jacobs, a Toronto gallery staged "Jane at Home", an exhibition running from 29 April – 8 May
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2014· 1 entry
Jack Diamond was recognized for his "contribution to improving the built form and advocacy for cities and the future of the Greater Toronto Area"
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2012· 1 entry
Anne Golden took the prize "for her long-standing leadership in public policy, her academic work and her varied leadership experience in business, not-for-profit and government sectors"
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2010· 1 entry
Has continued to provide the award with a new life and new ways of promoting (and finding) the winners
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2008· 1 entry
The event spread to eight cities and towns throughout Canada, and by 2016, Jane's Walks were taking place in 212 cities in 36 countries, on six continents
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2007· 1 entry
The Municipal Art Society of New York partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation to host an exhibit focusing on "Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York", which opened at the society in September that year
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2006· 2 entries
Died 2006-04-25.
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“I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention.”
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2004· 1 entry
By Random House, Dark Age Ahead posits Jacobs's argument that North American civilization shows signs of a spiral decline comparable to the Roman empire's collapse
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2003· 1 entry
At a time when he was seen as a longshot
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1997· 1 entry
The city government of Toronto sponsored a conference entitled, "Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter", which led to a book by the same name
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1996· 1 entry
For her seminal writings and thought-provoking commentaries on urban development
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1980· 2 entries
Offered a more urban perspective on Quebec's sovereignty in her book, The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Separation
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And reprinted in 2011 with a previously-unpublished 2005 interview with Robin Philpot on the subject in which she evokes the relative overlooking of that book among her usual readership
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1974· 1 entry
And later, she told writer James Howard Kunstler that dual citizenship was not possible at the time, implying that her US citizenship was lost
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1968· 3 entries
Joined the opposition to the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of expressways in Toronto that were planned and under construction
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Jacobs moved to Toronto, eventually settling at 69 Albany Avenue in The Annex from 1971 until her death in 2006
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For inciting a crowd at a public hearing on that project
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1962· 3 entries
Awarded The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism (1962).
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Resigned her position at Architectural Forum to become a full-time author and concentrate on raising her children
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1965, and 1968, and she became a local hero for her opposition to the project
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1961· 2 entries
Random House published the result: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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This book was widely read by both planning professionals and the general public
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1956· 1 entry
While standing in for Douglas Haskell of Architectural Forum, Jacobs delivered a lecture at Harvard University
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1955· 1 entry
Jacobs met William Kirk, an Episcopal minister who worked in East Harlem
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1954· 1 entry
Was assigned to cover the Society Hill development designed by Edmund Bacon
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1952· 1 entry
When it announced its relocation to Washington, DC
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1935· 1 entry
During the Great Depression, she moved to New York City with her sister Betty
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-05-04.
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