The Legacy of Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) (News) Leif Utne

Jane Jacobs, a visionary advocate of human-scale cities, died last week in Toronto at age 89. Her central thesis, spelled out most famously in her seminal 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities,...

Jane Jacobs RIP

"Jane Jacobs was one of Canada's most influential public intellectuals, along with Marshall Mcluhan"

General Motors Bought Your Transportation Systems & Threw Them Away

 Maybe this is old news, I don't know. For example I know Jane Jacobs wrote about this strategy by General Motors to buy and dismantle all the public transit systems in North America in her book about the...