WDJJS -- What Does Jane Jacobs Say?

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“People love activity, not emptiness.” – Jane Jacobs

From Donald Baxter--

These radio programs have been rerun on CBC Radio One in the past week. Now that I have webspace to post the audio files, I'm making them available (please download these files to your harddrive as opposed to trying to stream them from my server):

WARNING DARK AGE AHEAD, Legendary writer Jane Jacobs — 88 this year! — describes how Dark Ages(cultures' dead ends) happen as knowledge is lost and ideas vanish. Jacobs warns that five social pillars are crumbling: family and community, higher education, science, representative government, and professional self-regulation. With analysis by Robert Lucas (economics), Alan Jacobs (city planning), Henry Mintzberg (management), and others.

Part One
Part Two
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Also, this AP piece from 2000, "Jane Jacobs still helping to shape cities: "Death and Life of Great American Cities" author influential guide to new generation of urban planners," is a good read.

And, "Jane Jacobs: Her Life and Work" by Gert-Jan Hospers School of Business, Public Administration and Technology University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands published by The Preservation Institute, is a nice summing up of her ouevre.