Jane Jacobs

“At the time we were all struggling with Miesian planning and the urban-renewal syndrome, and it’s interesting how the responses to Jane Jacobs differed.”

Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

“Large universities, as Jane Jacobs observed, are self-sufficient, single-function entities that disrupt the small-scale heterogeneity of a city.”

Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

“Jane Jacobs in 1962, the year after she published The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”

Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

“Tourism was largely ignored by the first generation of urban-renewal planners—even Jane Jacobs had nothing to say about it—but it proved to be a powerful economic force for urban change.”

Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis