Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs

Dirk Schubert is a Professor of Urban Planning at Hafencity University, Hamburg, Germany.

’This is a stimulating exploration of the immediate and long-term impact of Jane Jacobs’ efforts to resist large-scale urban renewal and highway plans for New York City. The book’s authors come from seven countries and offer perspectives from many disciplines, including both historians and individuals active in formulating current policies about urban design. They reveal how Jacobs’ ideas helped produce a transatlantic paradigm shift in urban planning.’ Jeffry Diefendorf, University of New Hampshire, USA ’Neighborhood revitalization, historic preservation, mixed use dense neighborhoods, New Urbanism: Jane Jacobs is consistently and even increasingly referenced. But what are the concrete links to the journalist activist and eminent female voice in urban studies who helped end so-called slum clearance? Examining her work, its reception and meaning for contemporary practice locally and globally, the contributions in this book provide a much-needed nuanced trans-disciplinary and trans-national contextualization of her work and philosophy.’ Carola Hein, Bryn Mawr College, USA

• Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 50 Years: The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Dirk Schubert; Part II Jane Jacobs: Roots, Basics and Impacts; Chapter 2 Central Elements of Jane Jacobs's Philosophy, Roberta Brandes Gratz; Chapter 3 Jane Jacobs and the Self-Organizing City Mary Rowe; Chapter 4 Jane Jacobs and the Paradigm Shift: Toronto 1968'“1978, Richard White; Part III Jane Jacobs A Radical Thinker '“ Cities First; Chapter 5 Visual Order and Perceptual Form: Contrasting Jane Jacobs's Urban Design Rejection with Kevin Lynch's Approach, Jörg Seifert; Chapter 6 Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin: Gentrification and the Jacobs Legacy, Madeleine Lyes; Chapter 7 Taking Sides with a Man-eating Shark: Jane Jacobs and the 1960s Density Turn in Urban Planning, Nikolai Roskamm; Part IV Jane Jacobs and Her Impact on Urban Planning Outside North America; Chapter 8 More than Building Regeration: The Shift Towards Gentle Urban Renewal in Vienna, Christiane Feuerstein; Chapter 9 Jane Jacobs, City Planning and its Rationale in Spain, José Luis Sáinz Guerra, Alan Hynds; Chapter 10 Beyond Diversity: Jacobs's Death and Life and its Relevance for Dutch Urban Regeneration Policy, Gert-Jan Hospers; Chapter 11 Jane Jacobs's Perception and Impact on City Planning and Urban Renewal in Germany, Dirk Schubert; Chapter 12 Jane Jacobs and the Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal, Christopher Klemek; partV We are all Jacobseans '“ Are We?; Chapter 13 Jane Jacobs 2.0 '“ Old Systems Need New Ideas: New Forces of Decline and Regeneration, Birgit Dulski, Gerben van Straaten; Chapter 14 That is the way the cookie crumbles '“ New Paradigm Changes in Times of Globalization and Deregulation, Friedhelm Fischer, Uwe Altrock; Chapter 15 Urban Ecology as the New Planning Paradigm: Another Legacy of Jane Jacobs, Stephen A. Goldsmith; Chapter 16 What Would Jane Jacobs Have Said and Her Relevance for Today and Tomorrow, Klaus Brake; Chapter 17 Jane Jacobs's Hamburg Lecture, 1981;