page_title: Jane Jacobs
hierarchical_section_title: Jane Jacobs
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. Jane Jacobs, chairman of the Comm. to save the West Village holds up documentary evidence at press conference at Lions Head Restaurant at Hudson &amp; Charles Sts.
context_page_description: Jane Jacobs was a Canadian and American journalist, author and activist. She had an influence on urban studies. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities said that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city people.
  Jacobs was well known for making grassroots efforts to protect existing neighborhoods from "slum clearance". In 1968, she was arrested for inciting a crowd on the cancellation of Lower Manhattan Expressway. Also in 1968, she moved to Toronto. In Toronto, she criticized the building of the Spadina Expressway.
  Jacobs got the second Vincent Scully prize from the National Building Museum in 2000.
  Jacobs was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She died from a stroke in Toronto at age 89.
context_section_description: Jane Jacobs (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was a Canadian and American journalist, author and activist. She had an influence on urban studies. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities said that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city people.
  Jacobs was well known for making grassroots efforts to protect existing neighborhoods from "slum clearance". In 1968, she was arrested for inciting a crowd on the cancellation of Lower Manhattan Expressway. Also in 1968, she moved to Toronto. In Toronto, she criticized the building of the Spadina Expressway (now Allen Road).
  Jacobs got the second Vincent Scully prize from the National Building Museum in 2000.
  Jacobs was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She died from a stroke in Toronto at age 89.
caption: Jane Jacobs as chairperson of a Greenwich Village civic group at a 1961 press conference.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "845", "Image ImageLength": "663", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2016:04:25 11:48:48", "Image ExifOffset": "232", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "482", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7391", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "801", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "663", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "1024", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "810", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "344", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "873286da59845b6d7ddf1ca6c36d4eaf"}