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À nos yeux, la croissance économique et la préservation de l''environnement semblent souvent irréconciliables. Et si nous étions dans l''erreur ? Et si les économies obéissaient aux mêmes principes que ceux qui gouvernent les systèmes naturels ? Par exemple, la façon dont les champs et les forêts tirent un maximum d''énergie de la lumière solaire nous permet-elle de comprendre la façon dont la croissance économique crée richesse et emplois ?La question sous-jacente est à la fois simple et complexe : L''être humain ― et cette étrange création qui est la sienne, l''économie ― appartient-il à l''ordre de la nature ?Avec intelligence et humour, Jane Jacobs soutient que oui. À travers une remise en question radicale des principes qui gouvernent la science économique depuis ses débuts, au XVIIIe siècle, elle montre comment les systèmes naturels et les économies connaissent les mêmes processus universels de développement. Ainsi, elle propose de nouvelles façons de concevoir l''économie qui non seulement nous permettront d''atteindre un plus haut degré de prospérité, mais aussi de le faire tout en protégeant notre habitat.
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Jane Jacobs est née à Scranton, en Pennsylvanie, Elle vit à Toronto, où elle est très engagée dans les affaires de la ville. Elle est l''auteur, entre autres ouvrages classiques, de The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) et, aux Éditions du Boréal, de Les Villes et la Richesse des nations (1992) et de Systèmes de survie (1995),
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About Jane Jacobs
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Jane Jacobs
1916–2006
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`
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