Jane jacobs

What the urbanist and writer got so right about cities—and what she got wrong.

"Citizen Jane" features compelling archival footage and photos, and a range of figures such as Mary Rowe, Michael Sorkin, Ed Koch, and Paul Goldberger.

Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses had different visions and approaches for building better cities. But that's putting it mildly. Very mildly.

Jane Jacobs ideas about 'mixed use' and 'eyes on the street' have been embraced by cities across North America. For years, Sam Sullivan worshipped at her altar. But when he served as Vancouver's Mayor in the mid 2000s, Sullivan says he realized that the planning evolution she started had resulted in sprawl, greenhouse gases and high housing prices.

Ever prescient, her final book outlined a coming dark age—and how to get through it.

Jane Jacobs

A true original who inspired a generation with her writings and activism in support of community-based planning.

When city planning supremo Robert Moses proposed a road through Greenwich Village in 1955, he met opposition from one particularly feisty local resident: Jane Jacobs. It was the start of a decades-long struggle for swaths of New York