“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
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Jane Jacobs
1916 – 2006
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Jane Jacobs (born Jane Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was a Canadian and American journalist, author, and activist best known for her influence on urban studies. Her influential book *The Death and Life of Great American Cities* (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers. The book also introduced sociology concepts such as "eyes on the street" and "social capital". Jacobs was well known for organizing grassroots efforts to protect existing neighborhoods from "slum clearance" – and particularly for her opposition to Robert Moses in his plans to overhaul her neighborhood, Greenwich Village. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through SoHo and Little Italy, and was arrested in 1968 for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on the project. After moving to Toronto in 1968, she joined the opposition to the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of expressways in Toronto planned and under construction. As a mother and a female writer who criticized experts in the male-dominated field of urban planning, Jacobs endured scorn from established figures, who called her a "housewife" and a "crazy dame." She did not have a college degree, or any formal training in urban planning, and was criticized for being unscholarly and imprecise. She was also accused of inattention to racial inequality, and her concept of "unslumming" has been compared with gentrification. <u>Source</u>: Jane Jacobs. (2016, May 4). In *Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia*. Retrieved 10:55, May 4, 2016, from `https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jane_Jacobs&oldid=718578863`
Bibliography
Books by Jane Jacobs
La nature des économies
2001
Dark Age Ahead
2005
The Economy of Cities
1970
The Question of Separatism Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty
1981
Dark Age Ahead
2005
Toronto Considering Self-government
2000
The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty
1980
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1993
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2002
Dark Age Ahead
2004
The Nature of Economies
2001
Cities and the Wealth of Nations Principles of Economic Life
1985
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