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Jane Isabel Jacobs [1] OC OOnt (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. [2]
Jacobs begins the work with the blunt statement that: "This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding." She describes a trip to Boston's North End neighborhood in 1959, finding it friendly, safe, vibrant and healthy, and contrasting her experience against her conversations with elite planners and financiers in the area, who lament it as a "terrible slum" in need of renewal.
Jill Jacobson, a star of film and TV known for her work in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the soap operas Falcon Crest and Days of Our Lives, has died.She was 70 years old. Jacobson's friend ...
In 1976, Menendez married Jane Jacobsen, a teacher for the Union City Board of Education and Union City Public Schools. They had two children: Alicia Menendez , an MSNBC television commentator/host, [ 249 ] [ 250 ] and Rob Menendez , who worked as the Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and was elected to Congress in ...
Jill Jacobson, a longtime television actress known for roles on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest," has died. She was 70. Jacobson died Dec. 8 in Los ...
Jill Jacobson, 70, has died following a “long illness”. Jacobson died on 8 December at Culver West Health Center in Culver City, California, according to her close friend and publicist Dan ...
One of his most vocal critics during this time was the urban activist Jane Jacobs, whose book The Death and Life of Great American Cities was instrumental in turning opinion against Moses's plans; the city government rejected the expressway in 1964. [47] Moses's power was further eroded by his association with the 1964 New York World's Fair ...
Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.