It takes some chutzpah to give your sophomore effort as a film director a title that rhymes with “Citizen Kane.” And good for Matt Tyrnauer, the Vanity Fair writer turned filmmaker whose newest ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In 2007, a year after Jacobs died, some of her close friends in ...

In a way, Jane Jacobs, who died this week, did to urban renewal what Rachel Carson did to DDT and Ralph Nader did to the Corvair. The Death and Life of Great American Cities marked Jane Jacobs as one ...

Jane Jacobs, that great student of cities and the freedoms that allow them to thrive, was born 100 years ago today. (She died in 2006.) We've run a lot about Jacobs in Reason over the years; here is a ...

In his 1962 New Yorker review of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the architecture critic Lewis Mumford credited Jane Jacobs for her much-needed criticism of so-called urban renewal, which ...

In her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the urban theorist and author Jane Jacobs wrote about what makes cities dynamic, safe, and humane. Responding to what she saw as negative ...

Let’s start with this simple fact: Jane Jacobs has had more influence on how we think about cities than anyone else since World War II, or at least since 1962, when her book “The Death and Life of ...

Jane Jacobs at a 1961 press conference for the Committee to Save the West Village (photo by Phil Stanziola, via Library of Congress/Wikimedia) I would like it to be understood, and increasingly ...

This article is by Everett Harper, the co-founder and chief executive of Truss. Jane Jacobs is rightly lauded as an urban planning pioneer. As early as 1961, she sagely articulated what makes the ...

For those of us who care about cities and why they flourish or fade, the accepted wisdom boils down to this: Robert Moses bad, Jane Jacobs good. Moses lives in urban lore as the ruthless New York ...

Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing. By Michael Kimmelman Over its several decades, the show’s setting has always ...