It's Jane Jacobs' Centenary, and Her Urban Dreams Live On
Happy 100th birthday to the urbanist writer. A look at her influence today.
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In Michael Kluckner's recent piece in the Tyee, Don't Leave City Planning to the Planners, he shared his love for urbanist writer Jane Jacobs.
"All I wanted to read was Jane Jacobs," wrote Kluckner. "I wanted to live in a diverse, fine-grained, citizen-centric community like the one she described, and found a Vancouver equivalent in Kitsilano in the early 1970s."
There have been many celebrations of Jacobs this year, what would have been the year of her 100th birthday. Many have mused how her criteria of livable cities -- pedestrian-friendliness, mixed-uses, constant evolutions -- are still relevant today.
The video above, "Remembering Jane Jacobs" by New York journalist Jim Epstein, chronicles how a young woman from Pennsylvania became hailed by many as the greatest urban thinker of the 20th century. Her contemporaries found her ideas unconventional (some even called her a "crazy dame"), but city lovers now take them for common wisdom.