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Jane Jacobs and urban health. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Urban Health, 2007
By 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in cities;1 in such an environment, intelligent urban design is needed to encourage the health and civility of citizens. Jane Jacobs, an influential urban critic of the 20th century who passed away this past year, pioneered thoughtful and responsible city design that would build not on the imaginary ...
Putnam S, Quinn A.
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Jane Jacobs

open access: yesRevista Políticas Públicas & Cidades, 2016
A obra de Jacobs ainda é, em sua maior parte, desconhecida no Brasil. Este artigo pretende iniciar a suprir esse déficit, fazendo um panorama de toda sua obra: seus livros, suas principais ideias, suas contribuições efetivas, os limites de suas ...
Vinicius M. Netto
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Jane Jacobs, a Rebel with a Cause [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2012
It is more than five years now since Jane Jacobs died in Toronto, having nearly reached the age of 90. Her name still resonates powerfully and most likely will do for several years and decades to come.
Jan Steyaert
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Lendo e compartilhando Jane Jacobs

open access: yesRevista Políticas Públicas & Cidades, 2016
Ironicamente, o sucesso indiscutível d obra de Jane Jacobs tem como uma de suas vítimas o seu livro mais importante, "Morte e vida das grandes cidades americanas": quanto mais ele é citado, menos é lido, pois temos cada vez mais a impressão de que ...
Renato Cymbalista
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Santiago de Chile through the Eyes of Jane Jacobs. Analysis of the Conditions for Urban Vitality in a Latin American Metropolis

open access: yesLand, 2020
The urban planning ideas proposed by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s remain relevant to this day, promoting a perspective on the relationship between urban morphology and the community that takes into consideration the experiences of the people themselves in ...
Luis Fuentes   +2 more
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Jane Jacobs en Barcelona: las condiciones para la vitalidad urbana y su relación con la movilidad cotidiana

open access: yesDocuments d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2021
Este estudio evalúa las ideas de Jane Jacobs, conocida activista y pensadora urbana, aplicadas a la ciudad de Barcelona. Para ello, en primer lugar, se sintetizan las seis condiciones básicas de Jacobs para la vitalidad urbana por distritos y por barrios.
Xavier Delclòs-Alió   +1 more
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Clumsy City by Design—A Theory for Jane Jacobs’ Imperfect Cities?

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2016
How do different concepts of justice correspond with the principles of diversity in cities introduced by Jane Jacobs? This contribution connects Jane Jacobs’ ideas on the diverse city with Mary Douglas’ Cultural Theory and its concept of clumsy solutions.
Sarah Maria Schmitt, Thomas Hartmann
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Re-Examining Urban Vitality through Jane Jacobs’ Criteria Using GIS-sDNA: The Case of Qingdao, China

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
This study focuses on the assessment of historic city vitality to address increasingly fragmented urban patterns and to prevent the decline of livability in older urban areas.
Siyu Wang   +3 more
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“UM GRITO NA RUA”: Jane Jacobs e a vida das grandes cidades

open access: yesRevista Políticas Públicas & Cidades, 2016
O livro seminal de Jane Jacobs, Death and life of great american cities (1961), passados 55 anos desde sua publicação, continua a despertar atenção e questionamentos.
Fernando Augusto Souza Pinho
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