Jacobs was well known for organizing grassroots efforts to protect existing neighborhoods from "slum clearance" – and particularly for her opposition to Robert Moses in his plans to overhaul her neighborhood, Greenwich Village. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through SoHo and Little Italy, and was arrested in 1968 for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on the project. After moving to Canada in 1968, she joined the opposition to the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of expressways in Toronto planned and under construction.
Jane Jacobs was not a hard thrower, but her underhand fastball fooled batters because she was basically a curveball pitcher. Jacobs hurled an in-curve, out-curve, upshoot and specially a drop ball, her better pitch. Her most impressive start was having pitched a complete game-shutout one-hitter, but she fell victim to sidearm delivery when the league converted over on it.
״Jake״, as her teammates nicknamed her, was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where she started playing softball at the age of 11. In 1943, she was spotted by a league's scout when she was 18, but did not sign until a year later.
Jacobs entered the league in 1944 with the Racine Belles, playing for them two years. She did not have a winning season, even though she posted a 2.82 earned run average in 1945 and 2.86 in 1945, while compiling marks of 9–16 and 7–9, respectively. The team had a surplus of talent, so she was loaned to the Peoria Redwings the next year.
"You can't rely on bringing people downtown; you have to put them there, ... The Death and Life of Great American Cities."
"The bible of urban planning."
"The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront."
"There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served."
"Design is people."
"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches."
"Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth."
MinnPost publishes two kinds of commentaries ...Olson Memorial Highway,” was the top-read commentary of the year ... -In 1958, urban planner Jane Jacobs pushed back against the notion that city centers should be replaced with large-scale office districts ... .
The space repurposed “everything that we could have repurposed,” Basalyga said, citing “a million bricks” reused, which “all had to be cleaned by hand,” as well as wood, structural ...
January 2025. Your guide to things to do in Asheville and across Western North Carolina... This month. ... The deadline is Jan. 7, 2025 ... at Black MountainYMCA (25 Jane Jacobs Road, Black Mountain) ... at Black Mountain YMCA (25 Jane Jacobs Road, Black Mountain).
Even if a movie doesn’t end up on The A.V ... The tennis ball's POV, Challengers... [Jacob Oller] ... [Jacob Oller] ... When the dam breaks in the climax of Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw The TV Glow, it arrives in the form of hands clapping, kids singing—and a scream.
The Issue ... The only way to stop fare beating is enforcement ... Urban plannerJane Jacobs once pointed out that any urban society that jettisons the values that have given it confidence, adaptability and identity will become weak and eventually collapse.
I recommend that our erstwhile town board members read Jane Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great AmericanCities,” one of the “books that wrote me” — especially her analysis of dead downtowns.
Subscribe here. Apple Podcasts . Spotify . YouTube . Overcast . Pocket Casts ... [Music] ... West ... I think it also came from—I don’t know—the advocacy of people like Jane Jacobs, standing up to the man and to the corporate machine that’s making all the decisions ... .
Former Conservative MP for North East Somerset, husband and father-of-six Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg clearly thought his life was interesting enough to warrant a Kardashian-esque TV series documenting it.
You don’t have the Jane Jacobs–style eyes on the street to deter people from bad behavior ... cycle where, you know, people just stay home, and then you have fewer eyes on the street, as Jane Jacobs said.
When Sir Jacob and LadyHelena Rees-Mogg were invited by email to star in their own reality TV show, the former cabinet minister and his wife assumed it was a hoax ... Keeping up with the Rees-Moggs — can Jacob become a reality star?.
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