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A Sense of Place

Course Material

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    • Space and Place
    • Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
      • Two Landscape Ideals
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Wrestling with Moses Blbliography

 

The book

Anthony Flint homepage

Jane Jacobs (Project for Public Places)

Jane Jacobs, "Downtown is for People" (Fortune Magaine, April 1958)
 

 

Book Reviews

New York Review of Books "New York: the Prophet," Jason Epstein

New York Times: " When David Fought Goliath in Washington Square Park"

Wall Street Journal: "Not Here, She Said How Jane Jacobs fought the ‘power broker’ to save the Village—and a city"

Metropolis

More reviews

 

Interviews

Jane Jacobs, oral history on the Lower Manhattan Expressway

Interview on NPR:  'Wrestling With Moses': How We Saw Our Cities Anew"

Interview on 
The Leonard Lopate Show
 

Video

Robert Moses v. Jane Jacobs

Robert Moses: Long Island's Master Builder

Longines Chronoscope with Robert Moses

Jane Jacobs: Neighborhoods in Action

Jane Jacobs on her book "Dark Age Ahead"

Jane Jacobs

Washington Square Tour, part one, part two

Magic Highway USA (Disney 1958)
 

Articles

West Village Houses a Monument to a 1960s Development Battle

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