Jane Jacobs
Literature Review on Jane Jacobs
In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Alicia Schatteman and Anthony Cooling provide the following summary about the topic of Jane Jacobs: This entry provides an overview of the work of the urban planner, community activist, and economic theorist Jane Jacobs. It provides biographical highlights as it pertains to her role as an activist, which was influenced by her intellectual endeavors, provided much to her fame, and is essential to understanding her place in history. It provides a summary of the effects that her ideas have had upon the fields of urban planning and economics. The highlights of her life story and activist efforts are provided and organized chronologically. Combined with the publicity surrounding her activism, most notably to stop the building of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, her efforts came at the right time to lead a paradigm shift in the field. However, once her ideas were incorporated into the field, they were often taken for granted and not properly attributed to her, and also her economic theorizing was much less influential than her writing on cities and urbanism.
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Notes and References
- Entry about Jane Jacobs in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2015, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom)
See Also
Further Reading
- Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018, Springer International Publishing, Germany)