Jane Jacobs, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, never earned a college degree and never held a formal academic position. But her ideas, put forward in The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...

Fifty years ago, discussion on the future of urban life was reshaped by the release of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. TAC asked several writers who cover urban issues for ...

Native Scrantonian Jane Butzner Jacobs didn’t mention her hometown in her seminal 1961 treatise on urban vitality and decline, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” That work, and her role in ...

This interview with Jane Jacobs was first published by Government Technology in November 2003 and is reprinted here in honor of Jacobs' effects on American cities and her recent recognition in a new ...