Jane Jacobs

...Greenway are a good example. Jacobs advocated low-rise streetscapes like Greenwich Village, but she was not adamant against towers, as long as the ground-floor experience was friendly for the pedestrian. She realized that density...

In this article: Boston, Greenwich Village, New York, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Housing and Urban Development, Yale, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.

In this article: Greenwich Village, New York City, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Manhattan, Washington Square Park, Houston Street, The New School, New York University, and Hans Hofmann

Jacobs advocated the abolition of zoning laws and restoration of free markets in land, which would result in dense, mixed-use neighborhoods and frequently cited New York City's Greenwich Village as an example of a vibrant urban community.

In this article: Toronto, New York City, Vere Gordon Childe, Robert Caro, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities

...regard for real lives in the way. Jacobs is his antithesis, the Greenwich Village everywoman who enshrined the virtues of messy vitality in her still-potent "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." Now there's a book that shows how...

In this article: New York, Greenwich Village, Robert Caro, The Power Broker, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and Washington Square

...they didn't want to be too specific. " Generality appears to be a Harris/Lefcourt trademark-they named their Greenwich Village spot Jane, as in plain-and the new place is nuance-free, all blacks and whites. (White subway tiles and...

In this article: Everyman, The New Yorker, Potato chip, Blue cheese, Filet-O-Fish, E mail, and Trademark

...people homeless. The battle to save Washington Square Park transformed Jacobs into not just a symbol of effective grass-roots activism but forced her to theorize about what made cities vibrant and sustainable. She would go on to...

In this article: Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, New York City, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Caro, and Random House

...a man who practically had his own kingdom in New York? Mr. FLINT: Yes, and someone who just up until that time where Jane started to clash with him, really had never been defeated. And she came to it by settling in Greenwich Village,...

In this article: Liane Hansen, New York City, Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park, WBUR, Public Radio, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities

...newly refurbished in New York. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) NEW YORK -- They are the neighborhoods Jane Jacobs saved: Greenwich Village, Washington Square, Little Italy, and SoHo. And they are, not coincidentally, some of the most valuable...

In this article: New York, Washington Square, SoHo, and Manhattan

...above a candy shop. Jacobs' fought and won in her battle against Robert Moses and his efforts to build the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have destroyed fourteen blocks along Hudson Street in Greenwich Village. Her book The Death...

In this article: Hudson Street, Manhattan, Bleecker Street, Dylan Thomas, Ninth Avenue, 14th Street, Greenwich Village, and TriBeCa