Jane Jacobs
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label: جاين جاكوبز @ar
label: Джейн Джейкобс @uk
label: ジェイン・ジェイコブズ @ja
label: Jane Jacobsová @cs
label: Джекобс, Джейн @ru
label: 简·雅各布斯 @zh
label: 제인 제이콥스 @ko
subject: Category:Tax resisters
subject: Category:Radical centrist writers
subject: Category:Environmental economists
subject: Category:Columbia University School of General Studies alumni
subject: Category:Interstate 78
subject: Category:American emigrants to Canada
subject: Category:Canadian architecture writers
subject: Category:Women urban planners
subject: Category:Canadian women non-fiction writers
subject: Category:2006 deaths
subject: Category:1916 births
subject: Category:People from Greenwich Village
subject: Category:Urban theorists
subject: Category:Philosophers of technology
subject: Category:Women's page journalists
subject: Category:American architecture writers
subject: Category:Writers from Scranton, Pennsylvania
subject: Category:Naturalized citizens of Canada
subject: Category:Historical preservationists
subject: Category:Writers from Toronto
subject: Category:Members of the Order of Ontario
subject: Category:Anti-road protests
subject: Category:Officers of the Order of Canada
spouse: Robert Jacobs
awards: Vincent Scully Prize
birth name: Jane Isabel Butzner
author: Jane Jacobs
author: Martin Douglas
imdb id: 4295779
birth place: Scranton, Pennsylvania
death place: Toronto
death place: Ontario
birth date: 1916-05-04
birth year: 1916
death date: 2006-04-25
death year: 2006
occupation: Urban studies
occupation: Jane Jacobs PersonFunction 1
birth place: Scranton, Pennsylvania, US
death place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
occupation: author
occupation: Journalist
occupation: activist
source: "City Views: Urban studies legend Jane Jacobs on gentrification, the New Urbanism, and her legacy", Reason, June 2001, Interviewer: Bill Steigerwald
source: --04-25
source: The Death And Life of Great American Cities, 1961
text: 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.
text: 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.
text: 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.
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