![]() ![]() She promoted higher density in cities, short blocks, local economies and mixed uses. ![]() ![]() With an eye for detail, she wrote eloquently about sidewalks, parks, retail design and self-organization. Jacobs saw cities as integrated systems that had their own logic and dynamism which would change over time according to how they were used. The impact of Jane Jacobs's observation, activism, and writing has led to a 'planning blueprint' for generations of architects, planners, politicians and activists to practice. 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. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urbanist and activist whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building. ![]()
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