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Jane Isabel Jacobs [1] OC OOnt (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. [2]
Jacobs begins the work with the blunt statement that: "This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding." She describes a trip to Boston's North End neighborhood in 1959, finding it friendly, safe, vibrant and healthy, and contrasting her experience against her conversations with elite planners and financiers in the area, who lament it as a "terrible slum" in need of renewal.
Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.
Kate Millett (Upsilon, Minnesota) – feminist and author [1] Anne Marie Pace (Beta Lambda, William and Mary) – children's book author, author of the Vampirina Ballerina series [15] Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Psi, Wisconsin) – author (The Yearling) [1] Kate Snow (Iota, Cornell) – anchor for Good Morning America [1]
The eight-chapter experiential road trip film is co-directed by Julian Acosta, Xan Cassavetes, Gia Coppola, Ryan Heffington, Boma Lluma, Gillian Jacobs, Ken Jeong and Alex Takacs.
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics is a 1992 book written by American urban activist Jane Jacobs. [1] [2] It describes two fundamental and distinct ethical systems, or "syndromes" as she calls them: that of the Guardian and that of Commerce. She argues that these supply direction for the conduct of ...
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Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born 1971, Nicaragua/US, nf) Jane Jacobs (1916–2006, US/Canada, nf) Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916, Australia/US, nf)