In a way, Jane Jacobs, who died this week, did to urban renewal what Rachel Carson did to DDT and Ralph Nader did to the Corvair. The Death and Life of Great American Cities marked Jane Jacobs as one ...

Jane Jacobs at a 1961 press conference for the Committee to Save the West Village (photo by Phil Stanziola, via Library of Congress/Wikimedia) I would like it to be understood, and increasingly ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In 1956, when car ownership and the suburban development that this enabled were just being embraced as American cultural ideals, pioneering ...

SCRANTON – The second biennial Observe Scranton celebration of late urbanist guru and Scranton native Jane Jacobs will highlight a mixed-use “village” arising out of blighted blocks of the former ...

Jane Jacobs, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, never earned a college degree and never held a formal academic position. But her ideas, put forward in The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...

The Jane Jacobs Lecture explores the challenges of political and community leadership in the urban context. Speakers are selected for their expertise and practice of creating diverse and vital ...

The "Jane's Walk" festival is coming to Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut and invites visitors to discover the city's urban secrets.

If not for Jane Jacobs, Susan Spehar might still be living in a big lonely house in the suburbs. Spehar and her husband had raised their kids in Darien, Connecticut, in a place with a pool and a yard ...

Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing. By Michael Kimmelman Over its several decades, the show’s setting has always ...