Jane Jacobs

One-line: Urbanist and author whose bottom-up, street-level view of how cities actually work underpins much of modern City Building thought.

What we know

• Quoted as the epigraph of The New Urban Crisis: “Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” (source: The New Urban Crisis)

Mentioned in

• Walt Disney and the Promise of Progress City
• The New Urban Crisis — epigraph on cities created “by everybody.”

Open questions

• Her major works (e.g. The Death and Life of Great American Cities) are not yet in the library — candidate reads for the City Building thread.