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- USA lahabali sabira ni lahabali tira ŋun nyɛ paɣa (dag)
- ލިޔުންތެރިއެއް (dv)
- americká novinářka a spisovatelka (cs)
- Amerikalı-Kanadalı gazeteci, yazar ve aktivist (tr)
- Canadees journaliste (1916-2006) (nl)
- divulgadora científica, teórica del urbanismo, y activista sociopolítica canadiense (es)
- 加拿大裔美國記者，作家，城市研究學者 (1916-2006)。 (zh)
- amerikansk-kanadensisk författare (sv)
- antropologa e attivista statunitense (it)
- arkkitehtuurikriitikko ja kaupunkiteoreetikko (fi)
- Wartawan Amerika–Kanada, aktivis dan pemikir modal sosial (1916-2006) (in)
- америко-канадська журналістка, урбаністична активістка та феміністська письменниця (uk)
- auteure, militante des droits de l'homme et philosophe de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme canado-américaine (fr)
- divulgadora científica, teòrica de l'urbanisme i activista sociopolítica canadenca (ca)
- American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006) (en)
- gazetare amerikano-kanadeze, autore dhe shkrimtare për aktivizmin dhe urbanistikën (1916-2006) (sq)
- עיתנואית אמריקאית-קנדית, סופרת ופעילה אורבנית (iw)
- Onye nta akụkọ America-Canada, onye ode akwụkwọ, na onye ndọrọndọrọ (1916-2006) (ig)
- US-amerikanische Sachbuch-Autorin, Stadt- und Architekturkritikerin (de)
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- Reason: What do you think you'll be remembered for most? You were the one who stood up to the federal bulldozers and the urban renewal people and said they were destroying the lifeblood of these cities. Is that what it will be?
Jacobs: No. If I were to be remembered as a really important thinker of the century, the most important thing I've contributed is my discussion of what makes economic expansion happen. This is something that has puzzled people always. I think I've figured out what it is.
Expansion and development are two different things. Development is differentiation of what already existed. Practically every new thing that happens is a differentiation of a previous thing, from a new shoe sole to changes in legal codes. Expansion is an actual growth in size or volume of activity. That is a different thing.
I've gone at it two different ways. Way back when I wrote The Economy of Cities, I wrote about import replacing and how that expands, not just the economy of the place where it occurs, but economic life altogether. As a city replaces imports, it shifts its imports. It doesn't import less. And yet it has everything it had before.
Reason: It's not a zero-sum game. It's a bigger, growing pie.
Jacobs: That's the actual mechanism of it. The theory of it is what I explain in The Nature of Economies. I equate it to what happens with biomass, the sum total of all flora and fauna in an area. The energy, the material that's involved in this, doesn't just escape the community as an export. It continues being used in a community, just as in a rainforest the waste from certain organisms and various plants and animals gets used by other ones in the place. (en)
- In her book 'Death and Life of Great American Cities,' written in 1961, Ms. Jacobs's enormous achievement was to transcend her own withering critique of 20th-century urban planning and propose radically new principles for rebuilding cities. At a time when both common and inspired wisdom called for bulldozing slums and opening up city space, Ms. Jacobs's prescription was ever more diversity, density and dynamism – in effect, to crowd people and activities together in a jumping, joyous urban jumble. (en)
- It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our cities or probably for much else in our society. But I do not think this is so. (en)
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