More on Jane Jacobs: Wikipedia, Jane Jacobs Page, Citzine, Amazon. Posted by Admin at August 19, 2004 09:24 AMHer activism permanently altered urban planning
From Business Week OnlineJane Jacobs had no formal training in city planning or architecture, or even a college degree. But when this daughter of a doctor and a schoolteacher moved from Scranton, Pa., to New York City in 1938, a job at Architectural Forum and marriage to an architect soon blossomed into a lifelong passion for understanding how cities are built and lived in. From her home in Manhattan's bustling Greenwich Village, the opinionated young woman watched with growing disgust as the urban renewal movement that had swept the U.S. after World War II cleared whole neighborhoods in New York and other cities. >Link