The famed American-born urbanist Jane Jacobs died last month in Canada, two weeks before her 90th birthday. She was best known for her book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” first ...

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 ...

Jane Jacobs didn’t trust urban planners. She once told me that planners would call her all the time and tell her what great work they were doing in her name. Then she would find out that they were ...

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, an author and community activist of singular influence, has died. Jacobs' classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities transformed ideas about urban planning, urging multi-use ...

The opposing visions of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses towards city building resonate with many New Yorkers today. It is certainly clear to me that Jane Jacobs is now the prevailing force. While no one ...

Jane Jacobs, 89, a writer and activist who condemned urban-renewal efforts for devastating inner-city neighborhoods and, despite an initial reputation as a radical and heretic, was vindicated as an ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A new, weeklong festival in Scranton will celebrate late urbanist guru Jane Jacobs and her ...

A sprawling network of ravines threaded through Canada’s largest city offers urban explorers an oasis of birdsong, burbling creeks and whispering trees. By Meghan Davidson Ladly David Hare’s sold-out ...

In his 1962 New Yorker review of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the architecture critic Lewis Mumford credited Jane Jacobs for her much-needed criticism of so-called urban renewal, which ...