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For the images that illustrate this volume, thank you to Peter C. Holt, Mary Engel of the Ruth Orkin Photo Archive, Jim Jacobs, John Sewell, Maggie Steber, and Charlotte Sykes. And for making this book possible, thanks to Caitlin McKenna, Amanda Lewis, Anne Collins, and the staffs of Random House and Random House Canada. Zoë Pagnamenta, with Alison Lewis, worked to make this book a reality too, shepherding a thoroughly cooperative North American publishing endeavor to a successful conclusion.
We’re grateful to Christina Bevilacqua, who gave us our first chance to think and talk about Jane Jacobs together; in many ways, this book began that evening at the Providence Athenaeum in 2014. Thanks also to Tim Mennel, Max Page, Suzanne Wasserman, and Mike Wallace at the Gotham Center for New York History, the Municipal Art Society, Sam Franklin, and Dan Platt for various opportunities to debate Jacobs, cities, and economies over the years. Tara Nummedal, Tim Harris, and Gary De Krey helped us sort through some knotty problems in the history of early London.
Nate would like to thank Max Allen, who first plunged him headlong into the worlds of Jane Jacobs, as well as Heather Ann Kaldeway, Gillian Mason, Mary Rowe, and Margie Zeidler, fellow travelers who greatly deepened his understanding of her ideas. He would also like to thank the many engaging and challenging professors he had at the Ontario College of Art and Design who taught him how to see, think, and write, especially Esther Choi, Caroline Langill, Michael Prokopow, Charles Reeve, Jennifer Rudder, Dot Tuer, and Jessica Wyman, as well as his advisors at Brown University, Steven Lubar and Anne Valk.
Finally, Nate would like to thank his ever-supportive family: Dwight, Kathy, and Nick Storring, Mark and Paul Sarconi, and Claire Johnson, as well as his wife, Emma Sarconi, for her nearly bottomless encouragement, advice, and occasional reminders to stop working and live a little. Sandy thanks Ilona Miko for her discerning eye and her many years of lively, loving counsel.
Selected Bibliography
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WORKS BY JANE JACOBS
Butzner, Jane, ed. Constitutional Chaff: Rejected Suggestions of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, with Explanatory Argument. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
———. The Economy of Cities. New York: Random House, 1969.
———. The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty. New York: Random House, 1980.
———. Cities and the Wealth of Nations. New York: Random House, 1984.
———. Systems of Survival. New York: Random House, 1992.
———, ed. A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece. New York: Random House, 1995.
———. The Nature of Economies. New York: Random House, 2000.
———. “Random Comments.” Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, vol. 28, no. 4 (2001): 537–45.
———. “Introduction: Dickens as Seer.” Hard Times by Charles Dickens. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
———. “Introduction.” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
———. “Introduction.” The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. New York: Modern Library, 2003.
———. Dark Age Ahead. New York: Random House, 2004.
WORKS BY OTHERS
Alexiou, Alice Sparberg. Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Allen, Max, ed. Ideas That Matter. Owen Sound, Ont.: Ginger Press, 1997, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2011.
Ascher, Kate. The Works: Anatomy of a City. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.
Ballon, Hilary, and Kenneth Jackson, eds. Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York. New York: Norton, 2007.
Banfield, Edward. The Unheavenly City. New York: Little, Brown, 1970.
Broadbent, Alan. Urban Nation. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2009.
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf, 1974.
De Landa, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Zone Books, 1997.
De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Desrochers, Pierre, and Gert-Jan Hospers. “Cities and the Economic Development of Nations: An Essay on Jane Jacobs’ Contribution to Economic Theory.” Canadian Journal of Regional Science, vol. 30, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 115–30.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997.
Flint, Anthony. Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City. New York: Random House, 2009.
Gans, Herbert J. People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Policies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Glaeser, Edward. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
Glaeser, Edward et al. “Growth in Cities.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 100, no. 6 (1992): 1126–52.
Goldsmith, Stephen A., and Lynne Elizabeth, eds. What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs. Oakland: New Village Press, 2010.
Gratz, Roberta Brandes. “A Conversation with Jane Jacobs.” Tikkun, vol. 16, no. 1 (May 2001): 27–31.
———. The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. New York: Nation Books, 2010.
Greenberg, Ken. Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2011.
Harris, Blake. “Cities and Web Economies: Interview with Jane Jacobs.” New Colonist, 2002. Available at www.sustainablecitynews.com/jane_jacobs-html/.
———. “Jane Jacobs: Unraveling the True Nature of Economics.” Government Technology, vol. 13, no. 11 (November 2003): 18–25.
Hartman, Chester. Between Eminence and Notoriety: Four Decades of Radical Urban Planning. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 2002.
Kanigel, Robert. Eyes on the Street: A Life of Jane Jacobs. New York: Knopf, 2016.
Klemek, Christopher. “From Political Outsider to Power Broker in Two ‘Great American Cities.’ ” Journal of Urban History, vol. 34, no. 2 (January 2008): 309–32.
———. The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Kunstler, James H. “Godmother of the American City.” Metropolis, vol. 20, no. 7 (March 2001): 130–87.
Laurence, Peter L. Becoming Jane Jacobs. Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2016.
Lawrence, Fred. Ethics in Making a Living: The Jane Jacobs Conference. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.
Lucas, Jr., Robert E. “On the Mechanics of Economic Growth.” Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 22, no. 1 (1988): 3–42.
Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960.
Nowlan, David. “Jane Jacobs Among the Economists.” In Ideas That Matter, ed. Max Allen. Owen Sound, Ont.: Ginger Press, 1997.
O’Connor, Ryan. The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press, 2015.
Page, Max, and Timothy Mennel. Reconsidering Jane Jacobs. Chicago: Planners Press, 2011.
Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law and the Profits. New York: Random House, 1960.
Pirenne, Henri. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1925, rev. ed. 2014.
Rowe, Mary, ed. Toronto: Considering Self-Government. Owen Sound, Ont.: Ginger Press, 2000.
Sabel, Charles F., and Michael J. Piore. The Second Industrial Divide. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
“Safdie/Rouse/Jacobs: An Exchange.” Urban Design International, vol. 2, no. 2 (1981): 26–29, 38.
Schubert, Dirk, ed. Contemporary Perspective
s on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impact of an Urban Visionary. London: Ashgate, 2014.
Sewell, John. The Shape of the City. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
———. “Jane Jacobs in Conversation.” Ideas That Matter, vol. 3, no. 3 (2005): 31–33.
Solnit, Rebecca. “Three Who Made a Revolution.” The Nation (March 16, 2006). Available at thenation.com/article/three-who-made-revolution/.
Sorkin, Michael. Twenty Minutes in Manhattan. London: Reaktion Books, 2009.
Steigerwald, Bill. “City Views,” Reason, June 2001. Available at reason.com/archives/2001/06/01/city-views.
Stein, Janice Gross. The Cult of Efficiency. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2002.
Taylor, Peter J. Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems, and City/State Relations. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2013.
White, Richard. “Jane Jacobs in Toronto, 1968–78.” Journal of Planning History, vol. 10, no. 2 (2011).
Whyte, William H., Jr., ed. The Exploding Metropolis. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958.
Zipp, Samuel. Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Image and Text Credits
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ALL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF JOHN J. BURNS LIBRARY, BOSTON COLLEGE AND THE ESTATE OF JANE JACOBS, EXCEPT:
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Frontispiece: Jane Jacobs and Ned Jacobs, 1961, by Ruth Orkin, courtesy Photo Archive Ruth Orkin
Part Three: City Hall Belongs to the People, by Charlotte Sykes, courtesy of Charlotte Sykes.
Part Four: Jane Jacobs on Bloor St., by Maggie Steber, courtesy of Maggie Steber
JANE JACOBS’S WRITINGS COURTESY OF JOHN J. BURNS LIBRARY, BOSTON COLLEGE, AND THE ESTATE OF JANE JACOBS, EXCEPT:
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“Reason, Emotion, Pressure: There Is No Other Recipe.” The Village Voice (May 22, 1957): 4, 12. Copyright © 1957. Reprinted by permission of The Village Voice.
“Downtown Is for People.” Fortune (1958), copyright © 1958 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner in any language in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Reprinted by permission of Time Inc.
“Strategies for Helping Cities.” The American Economic Review 59, no. 4 (September 1969): 652–56. Copyright © 1969. Reprinted by permission of American Economic Association.
Foreword to the 1993 edition of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, copyright © 1961 by Jane Jacobs, foreword copyright © 1993 by Jane Jacobs. Reprinted by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC.
“First Letter to the Consumer Policy Institute.” 1994. Reprinted by permission of Consumer Policy Institute.
“Efficiency and the Commons.” Ideas That Matter 2, no. 2 (November 2002): 14–17. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission of Ideas That Matter.
“The Sparrow Principle.” Originally published as part of “Urban Economy and Development: Interview of Jane Jacobs with Roberto Chavez, Tia Duer, and Ke Fang,” The World Bank, February 4, 2002. The World Bank Group authorizes the use of this material subject to terms and conditions on its website, worldbank.org/terms.
BY JANE JACOBS
Vital Little Plans
Dark Age Ahead
The Nature of Economies
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska
Systems of Survival
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
The Question of Separatism
The Economy of Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
FOR CHILDREN
The Girl on the Hat
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JANE JACOBS (1916–2006) was a writer who for more than forty years championed innovative, community-based approaches to urban planning. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, became perhaps the most influential text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of planners and activists.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
SAMUEL ZIPP is a writer and historian. He is the author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York, which tells the larger history of the battles over urban renewal that propelled Jane Jacobs to national fame. He has written articles and reviews on urbanism and culture for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Nation, as well as other magazines and journals. He is associate professor of American studies and urban studies at Brown University.
NATHAN STORRING is a writer, curator, and designer who specializes in making contemporary urban design, planning, and policy accessible to the general public. He has served as acting curator of Urbanspace Gallery in Toronto (founded by colleagues of Jane Jacobs) and worked on permanent exhibits at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and the Boston Society of Architects. He has written for various outlets, including Canadian Architect, Next City, and the Metropolitan Revolution blog, and is a regular contributor to the Project for Public Spaces blog.