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Kanigel, Robert.
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Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
City planners -- United States -- Biography.
City planners -- Canada -- Biography.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Urban renewal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Urban renewal -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Sociology, Urban -- Philosophy.
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City planners -- United States -- Biography.
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City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Urban renewal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs / Robert Kanigel.
by
Kanigel, Robert.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Call #:
711.4092 J17k
Subjects
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
City
planners
--
United States
--
Biography
.
City
planners
--
Canada
--
Biography
.
City
planning
--
United States
--
History
--
20th century.
City
planning
--
Canada
--
History
--
20th century.
Urban renewal
--
United States
--
History
--
20th century.
Urban renewal
--
Canada
--
History
--
20th century.
Sociology, Urban
--
Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780307961907 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Notes:
Map on lining papers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-466) and index.
Contents:
Part I: An uncredentialed woman, 1916-1954. A generous place to live ; Outlaw ; Ladies' nest of owls, and other milestones in the education of Miss Jane Butzner ; The great bewildering world ; Morningside Heights ; Women's work ; Amerika ; Trushchoby
--
Part II: In the big world, 1954-1968. Disenchantment --Ten minutes at Harvard ; A person worth talking to ; A manuscript to show us ; Mother Jacobs of Hudson Street ; The physical fallacy ; West Village warrior ; Luncheon at the White House ; Gas masks at the Pentagon
--
Part III: On Albany Avenue, 1968-2006. A circle of their own ; Settling in ; Our Jane ; Flummoxed ; Adam, Karl, and Jane ; Webs of trust ; Ideas that matter ; Civilization's child.
Summary:
"A
biography
of Jane Jacobs, the irrepressible woman who with her book The Death and Life of American Cities, and others that followed, so profoundly changed the way we think about and live in cities that, to this day, her influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning, or in any conversation about what cities mean to us. Jacobs is brought to life here by Robert Kanigel, the writer who introduced us to Indian mathematician Ramanujan and to industrialist Fredrick Winslow Taylor. The phenomenal woman, who, while raising three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books; saved neighborhoods; was arrested twice; and engaged - at home, on the podium, and on the streets - in thousands of impassioned debates, all of which, it could seem, she won. Here is the girl who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing and observational skills at Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other magazines, while amassing the knowledge and contacts she would draw upon to write her most famous book. We accompany her on New York's streets as she forms her opinions about what makes a
city
grow or fail, and meet the architects and
planners
and power brokers she battled with so vigorously. Each of her books and its reception are thoroughly discussed. Here, too, is the activist who helped lead ultimately successful protests against Robert Moses's proposed expressway that would have cut off her beloved Greenwich Village; and who, in order to keep her sons out of the Vietnam War, moved to
Canada
, where she applied her ideas about what made cities thrive to a new setting, becoming as well known and admired there as she was in the United States. Eyes on the Street - Jacobs's phrase for the vital human presence in a healthy neighborhood - is a penetrating, engaging portrait of a woman of fearless spirit and intellect whose every action and thought was often unexpected, always original and, ultimately, of lasting importance"--Provided by publisher.
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Biographies.
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