Fifty years after the publication of her most influential book, The
Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs is perhaps the
most widely read urbanist ever. Her ideas contributed to the
wholesale reevaluation of the tenets of contemporary planning:
urban renewal, public housing, highways, and zoning. It is hard to
imagine the renewed appreciation of neighborhood life, the
rejection of urban renewal and public housing complexes, and the
rise of the new urbanist movement without Jane Jacobs. It may be
hard to imagine gated communities, gentrification, and the
Disneyfication of urban centers without her as well. This volume
begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through
honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the
influence of Jane Jacobs on cities and planning is that she has for
much of the past five decades been "Saint Jane," the "housewife"
who upended urban renewal and gave us back our cities. Over time,
she has become a saintly stick figure, a font of simple wisdom for
urban health that allows many to recite her ideas and few to
understand their complexity. She has been the victim of her own
success. Reconsidering Jane Jacobs gives this important thinker the
respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full
range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques
on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning
today. It also looks at the international relevance or lack thereof
of her work, with essays on urbanism in Abu Dhabi, Argentina,
China, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Contributors include a range
of urbanists, planners, and scholars, including Thomas Campanella,
Jill L. Grant, Richard Harris, Nathan Cherry, Peter Laurence, Jane
M. Jacobs, and others."
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