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Jane Jacobs

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Name: Jane Jacobs

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Mumbai like a local

The secret to understanding a teeming metropolis lies in exploring its neighbourhoods. It is in these slices of life that a big city’s fast pace slows down and its true nature is revealed.Mumbai’s first set of world-renowned Jane Jacobs walks (organised ... [Published BBC - May 17 2013]

Entities: Mumbai, Jane Jacobs, Urban Vision, Urban Design, Mangalore

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Jane Jacobs Walk explores ‘Prayer Central’ in Cambridge

Cambridge’s fifth annual Jane Jacobs Walk proved more timely than its organizers had imagined when they planned the route several months ago.On Saturday morning, May 4, more than 60 people led by Charles Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical ... [Published Wicked Local Cambridge - May 11 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Michael Kenney, Central Square (United States), Cindy Carpenter

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Bike-share: What would Jane Jacobs do?

BY CHARLES KOMANOFF | I didn’t get to speak at the Community Board 2 meeting last Thursday night to discuss bike-share — I stayed outside too long kibitzing on W. 11th St., so my speaker card landed at the bottom of the stack. Here’s what I would have ... [Published The Villager - May 09 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses, Village Vanguard Co Ltd, Inheritors, Bear Hug

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Jane’s Walks: explore the city this weekend

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”Those were the words of Jane Jacobs, the visionary urban planning activist who once wrote a treatise declaring “Downtown is for ... [Published Metro.us - May 05 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Toronto, Robert Moses

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 2 reports

Take a hike in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge

Getting to know your community better is just one goal of Jane’s Walks happening in cities across North America this weekend. Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo held most of its walks Saturday in honour of the late urban activist and writer Jane Jaco ... [Published CTV News - May 04 2013]

Entities: Kitchener, Jane Jacobs, Urban Renewal, Architecture

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Jane Jacobs Day in Chicago

I've been reading the late urban planner Jane Jacobs' book, The$ Death and Life of Great American$ Cities for years. $ For some reason, I never finished it. $ I picked it up again recently because for the first time Chicago is having two Jane Jacobs Days--this ... [Published Chicago Now - May 03 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Chicago, Density, Vietnam

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 3 reports

"Jane's Walk" this weekend

Belleville will be joining dozens of cities around the world in their first ever Jane?s Walk. The annual walk is named for Toronto activist Jane Jacobs, who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities.It happens Saturday and Sunday and will have ... [Published Mix97 - May 03 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Toronto

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Go on a Jane Jacobs Walk

Alessandra Rizzotti commented 1 day agoAlessandra Rizzotti commented 4 days agoDo in Transportation, Living and CitiesA Jane Jacobs Walk is a free neighborhood walking, biking, and/or transit tour that celebrates and investigates the people and places ... [Published Good Magazine - May 03 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Architecture, Transportation

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

Organized walks promote community and health

The nonprofit Feet First holds “Jane’s Walks” Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5, in honor of urban planning activist Jane Jacobs, and the American Lung Association holds its Fight for Air walk Sunday, May 5.Seattle Times staff reporterRelatedMost Popular ... [Published Seattle Times - May 03 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, American Lung Association, Urban Planning, Lisa Quinn, Seattle

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Jane’s Walk

Vancouver and other cities across Canada, British Columbia, Canada is a celebration of people and cities taking place all around the world on the first weekend of May, to coincide with Jane Jacobs’ birthday. Through the simple act of walking together ... [Published Canadian Interiors - May 01 2013]

Entities: Jane Jacobs, Guelph (Canada), Canada, Guadalajara (Mexico)

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Jane's Walk - 01/05/2013

Interested in continuing the ideas and legacy of urbanist Jane Jacob? Then come and join us in celebrating Jane's work by taking part in Jane's Walk. Jane's Walk is a series of conversational walking tours inspired by urban thinker Jane Jacobs, that helps ... [Published Place North West - May 01 2013]

Entities: Manchester, Jane Jacobs, Liverpool (United Kingdom)

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 2 reports

Atlanta Can Flourish in Global Economy

"The economic foundation of cities is trade," proclaimed the great urbanist Jane Jacobs in her book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Jacobs’ statement remains just as – if not more – relevant for cities and metropolitan areas as it was ... [Published Brookings Institution - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Atlanta, Jane Jacobs, 1996 Summer Olympics, United States, Suniva Inc

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Mumbai like a local [Published BBC - May 17 2013]
Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left [Published Mobilizing Ideas - May 17 2013]
Letters, Week of May 15, 2013 [Published The Villager - May 16 2013]
Justin Davidson Talks to the New President of L... [Published New York Magazine - May 15 2013]
Denver's Downtown Revival Spurred by Transit [Published Architect Magazine - May 15 2013]
No fun? No point: Vancouver's political boredom [Published Rabble.ca - May 13 2013]
Jane Jacobs Walk explores ‘Prayer Central’ in C... [Published Wicked Local Cambridge - May 11 2013]
Lockdown Nation [Published Wall Street Pit - May 10 2013]
Walk the line [Published Time Out Mumbai - May 10 2013]
Bike-share: What would Jane Jacobs do? [Published The Villager - May 09 2013]
Ellen Dunham-Jones and Stuart Horodner talk arc... [Published Creative Loafing - May 09 2013]
Toronto's new lease of life [Published BA High Life - May 08 2013]
The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter ... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 08 2013]
Meandering down Muskrat Street [Published Banff Crag & Canyon - May 07 2013]
To Resurrect Penn Station, NYC Urges MSG to Move [Published Archinect - May 07 2013]
Which is better: people-friendly cities or car-... [Published Bike Biz - May 07 2013]
Keith Boyfield Simplify planning laws and let n... [Published City A.M. - May 07 2013]
Regina weekend round up: explore the Queen City [Published Metronews - May 06 2013]
Jane’s Walk puts Toronto on display: Hume [Published Toronto Star Online - May 06 2013]
Detroiters rediscover the Cass Corridor [Published Detroit News - May 06 2013]
Jane’s Walks: explore the city this weekend [Published Metro.us - May 05 2013]
Bike Regina puts a new twist on walking tours [Published News Talk 980 CJME - May 05 2013]
Beware the 'Density Cult' [Published California Planning & Development Board - May 05 2013]
Jacobs, Doris M. [Published Pueblo Chieftain Online - May 05 2013]
A city rediscovered [Published Calcutta Telegraph - May 05 2013]
Take a hike in Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge [Published CTV News - May 04 2013]
Passionate places [Published Thunder Bay Source - May 04 2013]
Jane?s Walk [Published 570News - May 04 2013]
Walking tours offer lessons in Detroit neighbor... [Published Detroit News - May 04 2013]
Historic Tour Planned For Morrilton Saturday [Published Fox 16 - May 04 2013]

Blogs

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Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left [Published Mobilizing Ideas - May 17 2013] By Mark Trekson Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left (Duke University Press, 2013) Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left , by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, isn’t exactly beach reading, but to those ...
Lockdown Nation [Published Wall Street Pit - May 10 2013] The lockdown of Boston last month has fallen out of the news cycle. People have moved on with their lives, and paid little attention to what the event implies. But here is the reality: every city government in the country is ready to repeat this experience. ...
The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter ... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 08 2013] The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 38 Table of Contents Chapter 40Chapter 39A Walk in the Park, April 26, 2056 I got a bit of a surprise when I got home. Edie caught me just as I was entering and asked, “Do you think we are descending into ...
The Triumph of Suburbia [Published Newgeography.com - Economic, demographic, and p ... - Apr 29 2013] The “silver lining” in our five-years-and-running Great Recession, we’re told, is that Americans have finally taken heed of their betters andare finally rejecting the empty allure of suburban space and returningto the urban core. “We’ve reached the ...
Atlanta Can Flourish in Global Economy [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - Apr 22 2013] "The economic foundation of cities is trade," proclaimed the great urbanist Jane Jacobs in her book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Jacobs’ statement remains just as – if not more – relevant for cities and metropolitan areas as it was ...

Press Releases

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The Rockefeller Foundation Honors 2012 Jane Jac... [Published PR Newswire: Business Technology - Mar 14 2013]