Tag: Jane Scharf

Walking the Walk

Andrea Cordonier

Community, Finance & Economics, Health & Security, Legal, Place & Space, Politics, Policy & Governance, Social & Affordable Housing, Sociology & Psychology

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. She had no formal training as a planner, and yet her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, introduced ground-breaking ideas about how cities function, evolve and fail that now seem like common sense to… Read more