“Every generation”: Robin Roger, p. 5.
“tended to fall prey”: Paul Goldberger, “Jane Jacobs: Still a Pioneer,” New York Times Book Review, April 28, 1996.
“I have my doubts”: Branson letter at Burns, 1:7.
“the infirmities of age”: JJ to Simon Doyon, August 3, 1999, Burns, 3:4.
“one hell of an operation”: JJ to Jason Epstein, November 21 [1973], Random House Papers, Box 1365, ColumbiaRare.
“stupid, stupid lady”: JJ to Roberta Brandes Gratz, January 15, 1982, Gratz papers.
“such a stupid careless thing”: JJ to Roberta Brandes Gratz, November 18, 1985, Gratz papers.
“white hair and a marked stoop”: Matter, p. 13.
“aware we’re aging”: JJ to Lukas van Spengler, January 20, 1994, Burns, 3:6.
“lost the sight”: JJ to Ellen Perry, January 31, 1996, Burns, 1.
Someone snapped a picture: Matter, p. 153.
“Our news is not so great”: JJ to John Branson, July 26, 1996, Burns, 1:9.
“liked going for the treatments”: Robert Fulford, “Lives Lived: Robert Hyde Jacobs,” Globe and Mail, September 24, 1996.
“a happy month”: JJ to John Branson, October 11, 1996, Burns, 1:15.
“An interesting, loveable”: Obituary notice, Globe and Mail, September 18, 1996. Jane gave $3,000 to Princess Margaret Hospital for its radiation treatment program. “We all remember…the kindness and sensitivity” with which Bob was treated there; JJ to David G. Payne, November 12, 1996, Burns, 7:5.
“am kind of useless”: JJ to Ellen Perry Berkeley, October 9, 1996, Burns, 1.
CHAPTER 24: IDEAS THAT MATTER
“firmly ensconced”: Jefferson Medal details, Burns, 21:5.
“I still cannot walk down”: Simon Jenkins, on five best books about cities, Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2011. Jenkins apparently draws from Immanuel Kant: “From the crooked timber of mankind nothing entirely straight can be built.”
“vernacular utopia”: Montgomery.
“connected with a generation”: Sandra Martin, “Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist.”
“car people” and “foot people”: D&L, p. xxii.
“a nauseating name for an old ideal”: D&L, p. 81.
“interconnected, not interrelated”: Jamin Creed Rowan, “The New York School,” p. 591.
sides of city life unrelated to physical form: Bramwell, in 2011, writes, “The Bedford-Stuyvesant district in Brooklyn, with its rows of pre-war brownstones, front stoops, and mixed uses, adheres almost perfectly to Jacobite principles. In movies such as ‘Do the Right Thing,’ Bed-Stuy native Spike Lee recreates its street life, replete with old men lounging on curbsides, children playing in the streets, mothers watching from windows, and local characters exchanging gossip. Nevertheless, for decades, strangers have not felt safe within it…Human capital overwhelms the influence of neighborhood design every time. On the other hand, Bed-Stuy is physically so attractive that it is now rapidly un-slumming, thus proving Jacobs’s points all over again.”
“So thoroughly internalized”: Campanella, p. 144.
“compared to developers”: Zukin, “Jane Jacobs,” Architectural Review.
“we stopped building places worth gentrifying”: Stephen Wickens, “Jane Jacobs: Honoured in the Breach,” Globe and Mail, May 6, 2011. See also interview of Jane by Claire Perrin, May 1999, Burns, 22:32.
“I hope any reader”: D&L, p. 22.
older, smaller buildings: “Older, Smaller, Better: Measuring How the Character of Buildings and Blocks Influences Urban Vitality,” National Trust for Historic Preservation report, May 2014.
Did “eyes on the street” reduce crime?: Matt Bevilacqua, “Researchers Challenge Jane Jacobsian Notion That ‘Eyes on the Street’ Reduce Crime,” NextCity, February 22, 2013.
Was gradual and piecemeal development: Eric Jaffe, “Jane Jacobs Was Right: Gradual Redevelopment Does Promote Community,” Atlantic Cities, March 8, 2013.
It became the measure: For numerous examples of the influences of Death and Life internationally, see edited works by Hirt; Schubert; Page and Mennel.
correct in all she saw?: After living in the Annex, Jane herself, according to son Ned, “modified” her insistence on the central importance of very high-density neighborhoods. “I think she realized that maybe she had highballed it a bit,” in response to the prevailing low-density faith of the 1950s.
“peak sprawl”: Emily Badger, “Have We Reached Peak Sprawl?” Atlantic Cities, October 2, 2013.
“Who could have envisioned”: Goldberger, “Tribute to Jane Jacobs.”
“the influence of Jane Jacobs”: Montgomery, p. 273.
James Marston Fitch once observed: Excerpt from The Architecture of the American People in Burns, 2:20.
“We’d strap her on the front”: “An Urban Visionary,” Vancouver Sun, April 26, 2006. See also Matter, pp. 187, 210–11.
she worried she’d hurt herself: Interview, Jim Jacobs.
“While I can always use more money”: JJ to William K. Reilly, January 29, 1986, Burns, 6:3.
“Much as I feel fondly attached”: JJ to George Rupp, December 4, 2000, Burns, 4:2.
“About a year and a half ago”: Peter Laurence to JJ, February 28, 1999, Burns, 39:11.
“a comprehensive intellectual biography”: Christopher Klemek to JJ, March 4, 2002, Burns, 43:10.
“Anyone with this amount of sway”: Vanda Sendzimir to JJ, October 16, 1995; JJ to Sendzimir, October 20, 1995; at Burns, 6:5.
“Cityscapes, Sidewalks and Scranton”: Michael Illuzzi to JJ, June 26, 2001; JJ to Illuzzi on June 26, his reply on July 18, her response on July 24; at Burns, 4:5.
“These past six months”: Timothy Patitsas to JJ, January 26, 2000; JJ to Patitsas, February 12, 2000; Patitsas to JJ, March 13, 2000; at Burns, 7:1. See also “The City as Liturgy: An Orthodox Theologian Corresponds with Jane Jacobs About a Gentle Reconciliation of Science and Religion,” in George D. Dragas, ed., Legacy of Achievement (Boston: Newrome Press, 2007), pp. 799–819.
“the Kings”: See, for example, Eli Yarhi, “Tale of Two Kings: The Story of Toronto’s Real Estate Transformation,” http://www.psrbrokerage.com; “Regeneration in the Kings: Directions and Emerging Trends,” Toronto Urban Development Services, City Planning Division, November 2002; interview, Ken Greenberg.
“It’s magical”: Steigerwald, p. 8.
“saved one neighbourhood”: Wellman.
“so many parking lots”: “Random Comments,” Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 28, no. 4 (2001): 540.
“The first hit our city took”: Geeman’s Blog, October 17, 2014, http://www.geeman655.wordpress.com.
“shit disturber”: Interview, John Downing; Downing’s article, “Jane Jacobs: She Listened to No One.”
“smiled benignly”: Fulford, Accidental City, p. 83.
the Order of Canada: Burns, 21:7.
“Ideas That Matter”: Account drawn from Cayo; interviews, Alan Broadbent, Jim Jacobs; event materials, programs, brochures, and planning documents, including John Sewell, typescript, “Rethinking Cities, Economies, Countries: A Symposium with Jane Jacobs as Mentor,” April 29, 1996, Burns, 20:6–7.
“I agreed they could do this”: JJ to John Butzner, n.d., but annotated as 1997, Burns.
“So bedazzling”: Cayo.
“Have you ever been?”: JJ to Ellen Perry, August 14, 1999, Burns, 1. The balloon ride was a gift from Alan Broadbent, a philanthropist and friend.
“At some point along the trail”: D&L, p. xxvi.
CHAPTER 25: CIVILIZATION’S CHILD
“is to learn economics from nature”: Nature, p. 8.
“I’m convinced”: Nature, p. 11.
“a blob of multiplied generality”: Nature, p. 17.
“Our remote ancestors”: Nature, p. 23.
“human beings exist”: Nature, p. ix.
“Those insufferable yuppies”: Mike Davis, “Green Stre
ets,” review of The Nature of Economies, Village Voice, April 11, 2000.
“fresh and provocative”: Steven Shaviro, review of The Nature of Economies, blog, http://www.shaviro.com, January 16, 2003.
“come to be seen”: Taylor, “Jane Jacobs (1916–2006): An Appreciation.”
listened to one another: Patrick [last name unknown] to JJ, April 4, 2000, Burns, 1:11: “Your characters are basically kind to each other and take each other’s ideas seriously…They listen to each other, another thing I see too little of among intellectuals.”
“learning to walk again”: JJ to Myron Magnet, February 13, 2000, Burns, 1:11.
“I’m taking the glucosamine”: JJ to Sally [?], June 19, 2000, Burns, 3:6.
“You were poised as a queen”: Margot Gayle to JJ, April 2, 2000, Burns, 7:1.
“nice wheeled walker”: JJ to Anneke, April 23, 2001, Burns, 7:2. The previous year, Jane had written a local medical supply company that she wished now to buy the walker she had been renting: “It now seems that I am going to need this walker indefinitely, rather than temporarily as I first supposed,” JJ to Therapy Supplies and Rental, July 10, 2000, Burns, 7:7.
“merry leading-edge explorers”: Dark, dedication.
“worked day and night”: JJ to David Ebershoff, November 26, 2003, David Ebershoff papers.
“Crisp, entertaining”: Kirkus review attached to David Ebershoff to JJ, February 24, 2004, Burns, 43:2.
promotional tour: 2004 tour chronology supplied by Anne Collins, Random House Canada.
“serfs, feudal tenants”: Jane Jacobs, draft of Mumford lecture, David Ebershoff papers. The several versions of the lecture show Jane really working it over. It ends: “Thank you for your patience as I struggle, like all of us, to find sane footing in the pervading insanity and insecurity of the shaky present tense.”
“grotesque parodies”: Essay based on Mumford lecture, JJ, “The Greening of the City,” New York Times, May 16, 2004.
“because people make it new”: Gopnik.
“the first theoretical explanation”: JJ, draft table of contents for unfinished book, then titled Uncovering the Economy: A New Hypothesis, Ebershoff papers.
formal contracts: Anne Collins to Aaron Milrad and Jane Jacobs, April 19, 2004, Anne Collins papers.
“I thought she would be with us forever”: See also Sandra Martin, “Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist.”
“first terrific pages”: David Ebershoff to JJ, December 10, 2004, Ebershoff papers.
“You must think”: JJ to David Ellerman, March 18, 2005, Burns. See also JJ to Tom G. Palmer, June 10, 2003, Burns, 43:6, where Jane takes umbrage at the few dollars an editor proposes to pay her for an article: “It is not only ‘nominal,’ as you characterize it, but insulting. You might do better to explain to your prospective victims or martyrs” why they offered so paltry a sum—whereupon she makes her way through a bleak litany of possible reasons.
“Unwinding Vicious Spirals”: Dark, p. 215.
supposed to have joked: Martin, “Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist.”
applying the word “theorist”: Robert Lucas, in “Economies and Growth,” Ideas That Matter 3, no. 3 n.d., p. 12.
retreat to the abstract: Several of Jane’s friends observed this change in her.
three women: See, for example, Rebecca Solnit, “Three Who Made a Revolution,” Nation, March 16, 2006; Urbashi Vaid, blog, “Women as Public Intellectuals: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson and Betty Friedan,” November 15, 2011; “Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan: One Provocative Evening,” http://www.womenvoicesforchange.org [website is no longer active], November 15, 2011; Josh Stephens, “50 Years Later, Jacobs Still Leads a Sorority of Dissent,” California Planning & Development Report, December 28, 2011. The three women, Stephens writes, spoke for many “who had grown weary of the false promises of the 1950s.”
“ladies’ auxiliary”: JJ, typed draft of her Mumford lecture, Ebershoff papers.
pushing a baby carriage: Veronica Horwell, “Jane Jacobs,” Guardian, April 27, 2006; Sir Peter Hall, “In Context—Social Ideal Ends in Yuppy Ghettos,” Planning Resource, June 3, 2011.
“the first book on the subject”: JJ to Jason Epstein, January 26, 1971, Random House Papers, RH 1365, ColumbiaRare.
“man’s fundamental propensity”: Warren, p. 8.
“market mamas”: JJ to Benjamin H. Hardy, February 2, 1985, Burns, 6:3.
“Like other women”: JJ to Frank Mannheim, May 9, 2005, Burns, 43:8.
“an amateur in the professional’s den”: Taylor, “Jane Jacobs (1916–2006): An Appreciation,” p. 1983.
“a revolutionary writer”: Taylor, “Jane Jacobs (1916–2006): An Appreciation,” p. 1986.
“more about restoration”: Mazer.
“If planning is good”: “Quotation of the Day,” New York Times, May 12, 1962. In another version: “I’m pretty sick of people being hurt in the concrete and benefited in the abstract, and this is what is always happening in planning.” Matter, p. 60. Or again: “There is nothing more frustrating than to be continually hurt in the concrete while you are continually assured, by persons out of touch with the realities, that you are being helped in the abstract.” JJ, Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lecture, “The Changing Economy of Canada,” March 19, 1970, Burns, 42:1.
“Any child is more important”: “Efficiency and the Commons,” conversation between JJ and Janice Gross Stein, November 15, 2001, in Ideas That Matter 2, no. 2 (n.d).
“I’ve had a very easy life”: Matter, p. 13.
Sabilla Bodine: See Jacobs/Butzner genealogical chart, Burns, 4:7. The original Sabilla Bodine died April 4, 1825.
“dynamics of civilization”: D&L, p. xii.
“we live in a graveyard”: Dark, p. 3.
“not the book”: Bruce Fisher. Other harsh reviews included those of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, who called it an “extremely sloppy book”; and Peter Laurence, writing in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, who termed her last book perhaps “her least original and least persuasive.” Jane, says her son Jim, was aware it was not as strong as her other books; she did it too quickly.
“Even if we go into darkness”: Gopnik.
“began by writing about sidewalks”: Mazer.
“To civilization!”: Systems, p. 214.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography excludes Wikipedia and similar such online entries; routine newspaper articles, obituaries, brochures, and newsletter entries; ordinary genealogical information about the Butzners, Robisons, and Jacobses; and newspaper clippings and the like bearing on local history. When relevant, these are mostly consigned to the Notes.
The 1997 book Ideas That Matter, edited by Max Allen, and abbreviated in the Notes as Matter, is a particularly rich sampling of information about Jane Jacobs, containing hundreds of articles, letters, and excerpts culled from the Jane Jacobs Papers held at the Burns Library in Boston, as well as some original contributions. The numerous citations in the Notes to this essential book simply cite the page number; for further bibliographical reference consult the book itself. The book Ideas That Matter was inspired by a conference of the same name held in Toronto in 1997. The same name was used for a short-lived journal, which is referred to in the Notes by its full name.
As for Jane Jacobs’s own work, writings published under her maiden name, Jane Butzner, appear under that name. Articles written for Amerika in Russian translation do not appear here but are referred to in the text and the Notes.
WORKS BY JANE JACOBS
BOOKS
The Death and Life of Great American Cities. 50th anniversary edition. New York: Modern Library. Originally published by Random House, 1961.
The Economy of Cities. New York: Vintage Books, 1970.
The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty. Montreal: Baraka Books, 1980.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Li
fe. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
The Girl on the Hat. Illustrated by Karen Reczuch. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
The Nature of Economies. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.
Dark Age Ahead. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
Jacobs, Jane, ed., with introduction and commentary. A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
SELECTED ARTICLES (including uncredited ones where JJ is known to be the author), TALKS, PANEL PRESENTATIONS
“Islands the Boats Pass By.” Harper’s Bazaar (July 1947).
“Big Double Hospital.” Architectural Forum (June 1952), unbylined.
“Self-Selection.” Architectural Forum (November 1953), unbylined.
“Hitch-hiking with the Fish.” Unpublished article, ca. 1954. Burns 22:8.
“Philadelphia’s Redevelopment.” Architectural Forum (July 1955), unbylined.
“The Missing Link in City Redevelopment.” Architectural Forum (June 1956).
“By 1976 What City Pattern?” Architectural Forum (September 1956), unbylined.
“Our ‘Surplus’ Land.” Architectural Forum (March 1957), unbylined editorial.
“New York’s Office Boom.” Architectural Forum (March 1957).
“Row Houses for Cities.” Architectural Forum (May 1957).
“Metropolitan Government.” Architectural Forum (August 1957).
“Washington.” Architectural Forum (January 1958).
“The City’s Threat to Open Land.” Architectural Forum (January 1958), unbylined.
“Redevelopment Today.” Architectural Forum (April 1958), unbylined.
“Downtown Is for People.” In Whyte, The Exploding Metropolis, 157–84.
“Talk Given April 20, 1958, at a dinner panel of the New School Associates.” Typescript. Burns.
“New Heart for Baltimore.” Architectural Forum (June 1958).
“What Is a City?” Architectural Forum (July 1958), unbylined editorial.
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