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 ...

Jane Jacobs and the "battle for the street" / Ray Suarez -- The mirage of the efficient city / Sanford Ikeda -- The intelligence of informality / Nabeel Hamdi -- The Tao of urbanism : integrating ...

Jane Jacobs took on big city planners to defend the life of the city. What might Jacobs have thought of Grand Avenue? Plus, Jodie Foster's favorite building, and Dan Neil on why we care about Ferraris ...

Part I: An uncredentialed woman, 1916-1954. A generous place to live ; Outlaw ; Ladies' nest of owls, and other milestones in the education of Miss Jane Butzner ; The great bewildering world ; ...

Last fall’s Jane Jacobs Lecture featured Eric Klinenberg, professor at NYU, best-selling author, and sociologist known for his research on cities, climate change, and the social forces that hold ...

Two Greenwich Village sites once owned by famous 20-century women have found new owners amid a strong stretch for high-end sales. The Bedford Street home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Hudson ...

Jane’s Walk is an annual celebration where volunteers in cities throughout the world host group walks in their neighborhoods to honor Jane Jacobs’s birthday. In Seattle, Feet First ...

Today, the largest threat facing the Village is the steep cost that comes with living there. But in 1961, it was the harsh ...