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Jane Jacobs' death will be talked about for a while, because issues she questioned continue to be relevant today, and we expect many articles about her and influence to come. But, for now, here are a couple links on Jane Jacobs - and let us know about more:
- The NY Times obituary has an extensive look at her life
- The AP obituary has a quote from her editor, Jason Epstein ("She inspired a kind of quiet revolution. Every time you see people rise up and oppose a developer, you think of Jane Jacobs.") and Robert Moses biographer, Robert Caro ("far-sighted genius who guided cities in new directions")
- Studio 360 radio interview from 2002
- Video interview (and text) of Jacobs speaking at the World Banks' Urban Forum 2002
- Metropolis' 1998 interview and 2000 interview
- Transportation Alternatives's statement on her death, with her quote about a car-free Central Park
- Canadian Press feature from 2002
- Jacobs as "anti-planner," per the Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003
- Google News on "Jane Jacobs"
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What a great picture... a brew and a smoke on a stool in the White Horse (which was around the corner from her apartment). I know she lived in Toronto since '69, but Jane Jacobs was a true New Yorker. RIP.
btw, the proper link to the mises.org article is : http://www.mises.org/story/1247
Every time you walk anywhere below 14th Street, say a silent prayer of thanks to Jane Jacobs. Without her efforts, lower Manhattan would have been bisected by one of Robert Moses's highways and it would have ended up much like the south Bronx, which is just now beginning to recover from the building of the Cross-Bronx Expressway.
Too bad there's no Jane Jacobs around to save us from the urban blight that the Meatpacking District has become.
I live in the Annex neighbourhood in downtown Toronto and just a few blocks over from Jane Jacobs' Albany St. home.
We started a neighbourhood Book of Condolence which anyone can sign, it's at Dooney's Cafe on Bloor, but because you all are in New York, you can leave any messages of condolence or just share a memory at the Jane Jacobs online memorial weblog here:
http://www.JaneJacobs.TYO.ca
The Book and all the online messages will be forwarded to her family.
Thanks.
they should name the highline park after her