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A previous post is entitled: Investing in cultural cohesion and preservation can help rebuild cities devastated by war or natural disasters, says a new World Bank report – March 12, 2019 CityLab article I have an interest in the history of land-use decision making, a history that dates back millions of years. Human beings have […]
For details click here: Port Credit and Jane Jacobs: past, present and future development Led by Jonathan Giggs, Michael D. Spaziani, B.E.S. (Environmental Studies), B. Arch., OAA, FRAIC Sunday, May 28, 2017, 10:00 am, 1.5 Hours Meet at lower level of Port Credit Memorial Arena, 40 Stavebank Road. Comment Michael Spaziani is a tremendously valuable […]
A recent post about Jane Jacobs is entitled: Is Jane Jacobs blameworthy for gentrification?: Arguments for and against My friend Mike James has let me know about the following Sept. 30, 2016 article from the Globe and Mail: Remembering and understanding Jane Jacobs, beyond left and right The opening paragraph reads: Everyone has their own Jane […]
I recently came across a book, The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs (2012), that positions Jane Jacobs as among the most influential thinkers who contributed to the intellectual currents of the 1960s and 1970s – “along,” as the book notes (p.2), “with Thomas Kuhn, Ian McHarg, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan, John Rawls, to name a […]
I heard Jane Jacobs speak in Toronto around the early 1980s when I lived for a brief period on Toronto Island. In those years the Toronto Island community on Ward Island and Algonquin Island was facing eviction at the hands of the Metropolitan Toronto government whose political leadership had a strong desire to turn the […]
I like Alice Munro’s comparison between her way of reading a short story, and the experience a person has when visiting somebody’s house. We all know how a house works, she remarks in the anthology entitled The art of the short story (2206), and “how it encloses space and makes connections between one enclosed space and another and […]
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (2011) offers a good introduction to Jane Jacob’s work. This book, available at the Toronto Public Library, offers a valuable overview of her life, her growth as a writer, and her legacy. The essays include a fascinating overview of her wide-ranging work as a writer (reaching both general and academic audiences) prior to […]
The following is an excerpt from an email message from Jane’s Walk Toronto: “No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at…suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities, you’ve got to get out and walk,” – Jane Jacobs, Downtown is for People (1957) We’re nearly a month away […]