2011/03/28 by Richard White · 1 citation
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Civil engineering #Engineering #Political science #Sociology #Urban Planning and Governance #Urban planning #Urbanization and City Planning #Work (physics)
paper · doi:10.1177/1538513210396293
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Jane Jacobs moved from New York to Toronto in 1968 and is often assumed to have played an important part introducing and advancing new planning ideas to Toronto and shaping the city’s urban form. This study investigates the role she played in four important episodes in the transformation of the city’s planning from 1968 to 1978 and finds that, although the ideas in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities had considerable impact on Toronto, many other forces of change were at work and that she herself was not as influential an activist as some have claimed.