Jane Jacobs: Her Life and Work

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Jane Butzner Jacobs was born on 4 May 1916 in Scranton, a mining town in the American state of Pennsylvania, where her father was a family doctor. After graduating from high school, where she claims she was bored and secretly read other books during the class, she became a voluntary journalist with the local newspaper. After one and a half year Jacobs spread her wings and moved from provincial Scranton to cosmopolitan New York. The metropolis was in the middle of the Great Depression, however, and finding a job was far from being easy. Jacobs accepted all kinds of jobs, varying from journalist to secretary, but sometimes could find no work at all. In the periods when she was unemployed, she took long walks through New York and observed the hustle and bustle of the city. She also took courses in physics and social subjects at Columbia University, just because she liked them. Later she said that this time in New York taught her a lot about city life and the social-economic dynamic it radiates, a theme which reccurs in her work.

Via  Augusto de Franco

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