Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Sparberg Alexiou

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" Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Sparberg Alexiou "
Perkins, Kristin L.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	930341
Doc. No	:	LA0k58c042
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Perkins, Kristin L.
Title & Author	:	Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Sparberg Alexiou [Article]\ Perkins, Kristin L.
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Planning Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/1
Date	:	2007
Abstract	:	Believing it would only impede her own writing, urban theorist Jane Jacobs refused to assist her would-be biographers. As a result, journalist Alice Sparberg Alexiou's Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, inspired by Jacobs's stands against powerful figures like Robert Moses and commitment to Greenwich Village, is forced to uncover Jacobs's life from her published works. Alexiou situates Jacobs's life in the context of planning and planning history and discusses Jacobs's role in constructing that history.