Death and Life of Great American Cities Suggested for Canada Reads

on October 24, 2011 in Jane Jacobs

Readers of CBC Books have chosen 40 non-fiction works they’d like to see compete in next February’s edition of Canada Reads: True Stories CBC’s annual book debate.  Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities is one of them.

Other writers on the list include Farley Mowat, Wayne Johnston, M.G. Vassanji, Pierre Berton and Margaret MacMillan. Two [...]

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Audio Version of the Golden Edition of Death and Life of Great American City

on October 22, 2011 in Jane Jacobs

There is a new audio edition of Jane’s Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition).

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The Destruction and Survival of a City Neighborhood

on October 21, 2011 in Video

Jim Epstein read The Power Broker and set out to document one of the communities destroyed by Moses’ urban renewal of the 1950s.

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Jane Jacobs and the Craft of Fiction

on October 17, 2011 in books, Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities captures not just the rich density of urban life, but the craft of fiction.

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Job Posting: Director, Jane’s Walk

on October 15, 2011 in Uncategorized

Jane’s Walk seeks a visionary and entrepreneurial individual to provide strategic and operational leadership as Director.

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Arizona Centennial Highway “Sign”

on August 23, 2011 in Video

In 1999, Michael Levine purchased “a few” signs from the Arizona State surplus yard. 12 years later he has put them to work.

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Jane Jacobs on Economies and Nature

on August 22, 2011 in Jane Jacobs, Video

Jane Jacobs asserted that economies are governed by the same rules as nature itself.

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Green Bike

on August 15, 2011 in Other

The Jane Jacobs bike on Albany Avenue in Toronto.

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Jane Jacobs Compares Toronto & Montreal, 1969

on August 10, 2011 in Jane Jacobs, Video

A short television segment from 1969, shortly after Jacobs moved to Canada.

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Watching: Jane Jacobs—Neighborhoods in Action

on July 22, 2011 in Jane Jacobs, Video

A great video produced by the Active Living Network. It features an interview with the urban goddess herself.

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