Main entry:

Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, 1951-

Title & Author:

Jane Jacobs : urban visionary / Alice Sparberg Alexiou.

Publication:

Toronto : HarperCollins Canada, c2006.

Description:

xii, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From Scranton to New York -- Urban blight -- Urban renewal -- The housewife with no college degree -- The death and life of great American cities -- The west village and lomex battles -- More battles -- Race, gentrification, and the South Bronx -- Toronto -- Economist without portfolio -- The Quintessential American -- Notes.

Summary:

"Alexiou traces Jacobs' move from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York City and the controversy that erupted when she dared to take on conventional urban planning wisdom with her classic Death and Life. Her ideas changed the way we think about cities. She protested then-current urban renewal practices and championed the "sidewalk ballet -- the fragile meeting of buildings, streets and people -- threatened by the building of highways and the tearing down of working neighbourhoods. Jacobs moved to Canada in the late 1960s and embarke on Toronto-saving campaigns, helping to preserve Old City Hall and Union Station. She was also instrumental in preventing the construction of the Spadina Expressway, which would have cut a swath through Toronto's Annex and other essential neighbourhoods."--pub. website.

ISBN:

0002008025
9780002008020

Subject:

Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
City planners Biography.
City planning.
City Planning
Urbanistes Biographies.
Urbanisme.
urban planning.
City planners.

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251444
Call No.: BIB 180940
Status: Available