Jane Jacobs and the cosmopolitan metropolis: 2012 UHA presidential address

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 881-889

  Teaford, Jon C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jane Jacobs; New York City; Toronto; urban planning

Indexed keywords

GENTRIFICATION; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLANNING THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN PLANNING;

CANADA; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881483278     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: 15526771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144213479311     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Two collections of essays on Jacobs's work that appeared following her death are: Timothy Mennel, Jo Stephens, and Christopher Klemek, eds., Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York (New York: New York Municipal Art Society, 2007);
2. and Max Page and Timothy Mennel, eds., Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (Chicago: American Planning Association, 2011).
3. Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead (New York: Random House, 2004).
4. For a discussion of boomburbs, see Robert Lang and Jennifer LeFurgy, Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007).
5. For discussions of Toronto's suburban "sprawl," see: John Sewell, The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto's Sprawl (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), and Lawrence Solomon, Toronto Sprawls: A History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).
6. Toronto City Planning Policy & Research, "Living Downtown," Profile Toronto (October 2007), 5.
7. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House, 1961), 53.
8. New York City Department of City Planning, "New York City Census FactFinder, 2000 Census Profiles for New York City," http://gis.nyc.gov/ dcp/pa/Map?mapaction=SINGLE&layer=nycd&stats (accessed August 19, 2011).
9. Toronto Social Policy Analysis & Research, Social Development, Finance and Administration, "City of Toronto Neighbourhood Profiles, Waterfront Communities-The Island," http://www.toronto.ca/demographics/cns- profiles/2011/pdf1/cpa77.pdf (accessed October 31, 2012).
10. Herbert J. Gans, "City Planning and Urban Realities," Commentary 33 (February 1962): 172.