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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]
The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre (ABT/JKO School) is the associate school of American Ballet Theatre located at 890 Broadway, within the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City. The school comprises a children's division for ages 4 to 12, a pre-professional division for ages 12 to 18, and the preparatory ...
A Marvelous Order is an opera by Judd Greenstein to a libretto by Tracy K. Smith about New York urban activist Jane Jacobs and urban planner Robert Moses.The work was conceived by three artists—Greenstein, Smith and director Joshua Frankel, [1] who also created animation that is projected throughout the opera.
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.
May 2—The late Jane Jacobs left a lasting impression on the architecture and urban-planning industries, and it's time to celebrate her legacy where it all started: her hometown of Scranton. The ...
The Ballet West Academy is the official school of Ballet West and is located in Salt Lake City. [ 4 ] Ballet West was featured in the reality TV series Breaking Pointe in the Summer of 2012 and 2013 aired on the CW Network, part of a BBC Production.
A Marvelous Order is an opera about the battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs [14] over the fate of New York City, conceived by Frankel, composer Judd Greenstein and poet Tracy K. Smith. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The opera is framed, implicitly, as a love triangle in which Moses and Jacobs vie for the affections of New York City. [ 17 ]
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