R.I.P. Jane Jacobs, 1916 - 2006
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An old friend of mine writes at Treehugger, http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/jane_jacobs_dea.php :
Plant a tree in memory of Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961, which started an urban planning and urban design revolution that rages still. She fought Robert Moses in New York in the Sixties, fought the Viet Nam war and moved to Canada in protest, and continued fighting bad planning and bad architecture to the end. Everything we preach about the value of a vibrant, dense and living city was learned from her ...
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I am saddened, but I am glad to have known her in the 70s in Toronto, and then later through the Ideas That Matter conferences. I'll have a glass of wine for her tonight, and think about how much she influenced me.
An old friend of mine writes at Treehugger, http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/jane_jacobs_dea.php :
Plant a tree in memory of Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961, which started an urban planning and urban design revolution that rages still. She fought Robert Moses in New York in the Sixties, fought the Viet Nam war and moved to Canada in protest, and continued fighting bad planning and bad architecture to the end. Everything we preach about the value of a vibrant, dense and living city was learned from her ...
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I am saddened, but I am glad to have known her in the 70s in Toronto, and then later through the Ideas That Matter conferences. I'll have a glass of wine for her tonight, and think about how much she influenced me.