Reconsidering Jane Jacobs

Max Page, Timothy Mennel, Max Page, Timothy Mennel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351178051
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of the author on cities and planning is that she has for much of the past five decades been "Saint Jane, the housewife" who upended urban renewal and gave us back our cities. Over time, she has become a saintly stick figure, a font of simple wisdom for urban health that allows many to recite her ideas and few to understand their complexity. The author has been the victim of her own success.

This book gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning today. It also looks at the international relevance – or lack thereof – of her work, with essays on urbanism in Abu Dhabi, Argentina, China, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.

INDEX

Abrams, Charles, 53

Abu Dhabi city (United Arab Emirates)

demographics, 106–8

economy, 105–6

history of growth in, 106, 108–11

Plan Abu Dhabi 2030: Urban Structure Framework Plan, 111–12, 116

plan for, 111–14

public participation in, 114

urbanist evaluation of, 114–17

Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) tunnel project, 158–59

Act of Rotterdam, 86

Act Special Measures Urban Problems, 86

activism. See citizen involvement

grassroots activism

Adler, Jerry, 95

advertising, outdoor, 60–61

aerial views, as planning basis, 8

Aleppo (Syria), housing in, 113

Alexiou, Alice, 77, 78

alliteration, in literary style, 51

America Illustrated (Amerika Illiustrirovannoye ), 26–27, 28, 33

American Historical Review , 16

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 149, 157–58

American Smart Infrastructure Act (ASIA), 159–60

American Society of Planning Officials, 56

Amerika Illiustrirovannoye. see America Illustrated

Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

design of, 85–86

Jacobs’s popularity in, 83

Amtrak, 148, 155

Arbus, Diane, 3

ARC. See Access to the Region’s Core

Architectural Forum

on Ed Bacon, 32

influence on Death and Life , 45, 51, 77

Jacobs’s career with, 21, 27, 29–34, 35

Argentina, Jacobs’s influence in, 6, 60. See also Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Arnhem (the Netherlands), design of, 86–87, 88–89

Arqa , 60

ASIA (American Smart Infrastructure Act), 159–60

Association of American Geographers, 17

Atlantic , 67

Australia, Jacobs’s influence in, 6, 37–42

Australian National University, 41

authority, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: More Than Meets the Eye
• The Unknown Jane Jacobs: Geographer, Propagandist, City Planning Idealist
• The Literary Craft of Jane Jacobs
• The Magpie and the Bee: Jane Jacobs’s Magnificent Obsession
• Time, Scale, and Control: How New Urbanism Mis(Uses) Jane Jacobs
• Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community Is
• Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index