Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs (78 page)

“A poor man’s penthouse”
:
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.

“I don’t think things should be blown up”
: JJ, “Futility vs. Taking Chances,” manuscript, no date, no place, Burns, 13.

“I have to hop to it”
: JJ to her mother, June 12, 1974,
Matter
, p. 98.

“Our Jane”
: For example, Wellman.

consulted with Jane
: Interviews, Eb Zeidler, Max Allen, Jim Jacobs.

“the most important advance”
: “Randall Unveils Plan for $500 Million City in Toronto Harbor,”
Toronto Star
, May 20, 1970.

“nasty, tacky collections”
: Memo, JJ to Eberhard Zeidler, July 14, 1970, Burns, 13.

“fantastic election”
: JJ to Jason Epstein, December 29, 1972, Random House Papers, Box 1365, ColumbiaRare.

“the constantly reminding background”
: Interview, David Crombie. Sketch of this era drawn from interviews with John Sewell, Jim Jacobs, Alan Broadbent, Max Allen, Alan Littlewood, and Crombie.

Jane’s personal influence
: See Richard White. A more typical assessment comes from Ken Greenberg, in
Walking Home
, p. 67: “Jane Jacobs’ observations almost immediately resonated in Toronto…Her ideas quickly came close to being conventional wisdom.”

“This morning at 6:30 am”
: JJ to Jason Epstein, April 5, 1973, Random House Papers, Box 1365, ColumbiaRare. See also excerpt from apparently unpublished JJ article: “One cold early spring morning before dawn in 1973…” Burns, box 13.

“The remark was repeated”
: Jane Jacobs, “Can Big Plans Solve the Problem of Renewal?”

Regent Park
: See, for example, Mary W. Rowe; Laurie Greene;
Farewell Oak Street.

live a decent life
: Ryan James made this point at a conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History in Toronto in October 2013. See also Ryan James, “From ‘Slum Clearance’ to ‘Revitalisation.’ ”

St. Lawrence
: Account drawn from site visit; Sewell,
The Shape of the City;
Hume; David L. A. Gordon, “Directions for New Urban Neighbourhoods: Learning from St. Lawrence,” CIP/ACUPP Case Study Series, ca. 1993; Jane Jacobs, “Can Big Plans Solve the Problem of Renewal?”; interview, Alan Littlewood.

“the best example”
: Leblanc.

“a district-scale experiment”
: Klemek, p. 222, caption, figure 12.2.

“enjoyed the activist part”
: Gerard.

“I realize I have been inflicting”
: JJ to Jason Epstein, December 15, 1974, Random House Papers, Box 1365, ColumbiaRare.

“I write a little way”
: Jane to John and Pete Butzner, April 2, 1976, Burns, 41:1.

CHAPTER 21: FLUMMOXED

“When you ask”
: JJ to Jason Epstein, August 12, 1976, Random House Papers, RH 1365, ColumbiaRare.

“I always hit some point”
: Alexander and Weadick, p. 30.

“I feel strongly”
: Jason Epstein to JJ, February 2, 1977, Random House Papers, Box 1365, ColumbiaRare.

“There is a fight to be had”
: “Mary Rowe on Cities, Nature, and Chaotic Systems,”
http://www.citybuilderbookclub.org
, April 19, 2012.

“Islands seem to be wonderful”
: Sandra Martin, “An Urban Legend,” p. 85. See also Alexander and Weadick, p. 29.

“I’m very slow”
: Warren, p. 16.

“stand the boredom”
: Alexander and Weadick, p. 30.

“tightly imprisoned”
: For JJ to Ned O’Gorman, December 20, 1965, and February 20, 1966 [but probably 1967], Burns, 5:3.

“all around 200 words or more”
: William Talada, “Obfuscation Overload,” Amazon review, July 16, 2014.

“Oh, I’m so chaotic”
:
Matter
, p. 26.

“a caterpillar munching”
: Harvey, p. 42.

The Muqaddimah
:
CityWealth
, p. 237.

recollections of Higgins
:
CityWealth
, p. 240.

“in the form of a funeral description”
: JJ to John Butzner, April 5, 1974, Burns, 4:8.

extracting from the clergyman
:
SofS
, pp. 86–87, 224.

“ ‘such wonderful examples’ ”
:
Matter
, p. 26; see also Alexander and Weadick, p. 30.

“ ‘unaverage’ clues”
:
D&L
, p. 574.

“solid statistical evidence”
: JJ to Stewart Brand, January 17, 1994, Burns, 6:5.

“an admiring puzzlement”
:
Ethics
, p. 34.

“When I start exploring”
:
Ethics
, p. 34.

favored small entities
: “Perhaps the stagnation of the United States is irreversible unless and until, no doubt after great turmoil, what is now the United States has divided into a dozen or so separate countries,” Jane Jacobs, “The Responsibilities of Cities,” Queen’s Lecture, Amsterdam, September 1984, Burns, 13:1.

Norway’s from Sweden
:
QofS
, chapter 3.

“Here in Toronto”
:
QofS
, p. 51.

“
a tour de force
”
: Edgar Z. Friedenberg, “Splitting Up,” review of
The Question of Separatism
,
New York Review of Books
, November 20, 1980.

“practically no reaction”
:
QofS
, p. 137.

refuted “some of the weaker arguments”
: Mazer.

“dreams in very good prose”
:
Matter
, p. 154.

CHAPTER 22: ADAM, KARL, AND JANE

“a kind of overhaul”
: JJ to M. Marcel Côté, June 30, 1982, Burns, 5:10.

“For a little while”
:
CityWealth
, p. 3; ensuing pages follow chapter 1.

Bardou
:
CityWealth
, chapter 2.

We could beat our brains out
:
CityWealth
, p. 34.

“was not a demonstration”
:
CityWealth
, p. 128.

“The difference between a rich backward economy”
:
CityWealth
, p. 63.

“Faulty feedback to cities”
:
CityWealth
, p. 158.

“done a great service”
:
Matter
, p. 106.

“learned, iconoclastic”
:
Matter
, p. 106.

wasn’t high prices
:
Matter
, p. 108.

“hated” by economists
: JJ to Robert Brandes Gratz, June 10, 1988, Gratz papers.

“the mysteries of the trade”
: Warsh, p. 80. See Warsh’s book and his “The Road Since ‘The Mechanics of Economic Development,’ ” Economic Principals online, September 23, 2007.

“didn’t inquire too deeply”
: Warsh, p. 81.

His subject was economic growth
: Robert Lucas, “On the Mechanics of Economic Development,”
Journal of Monetary Economics
22 (1988): 3–42.

“The consequences for human welfare”
: Cited in Warsh, “The Road Since ‘The Mechanics of Economic Development,’ ” Economic Principles online, September 23, 2007.

as he’d later tell the story
: Martin Wolf and Robert Lucas, “Economies and Growth,”
Ideas That Matter
, 3, no. 3 (undated): 11–14.

“Is it because innovations are so unpredictable?”
: JJ to Graciela Chichilnisky, June 9, 1993, Burns.

“I will be following very closely”
: Robert Lucas, “On the Mechanics of Economic Development,”
Journal of Monetary Economics
22 (1988): 37.

compared Jane’s predictions
: Edward L. Glaeser et al., “Growth in Cities, “
Journal of Political Economy
100, no. 6 (December 1992): 1126–1152.

Canadian inventors
: Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppälä, “Opening Up the ‘Jacobs Spillovers’ Black Box: Local Diversity, Creativity and the Processes Underlying New Combination,”
Journal of Economic Geography
11, no. 5 (2011): 843–63.

“an economics guru”
: John Barber, “Jacobs Embraced as Economic Guru,”
Globe and Mail
, October 15, 1997. Examples of the literature on Jane Jacobs and economics include: Pierre Desrochers and Gert-Jan Hospers, “Cities and the Economic Development of Nations: An Essay on Jane Jacobs’ Contribution to Economic Theory,”
Canadian Journal of Regional Science
(spring 2007): 115–30; Clint Ballinger, “More on Jane Jacobs & Economics,”
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/clintballinger
, accessed October 10, 2012; Sam Staley, “Disequilibrium and Time in the Urban Economy: Reassessing the Contributions of Jane Jacobs to Development Theory,”
Market Process
7, no. 1 (spring 1989): 16–21. See also Brian Tochterman, “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs,”
Radical History Review
(winter 2012): 65–87.

“Jane Jacobs Among the Economists”
:
Matter
, pp. 111–13.

“great novel of economic development”
: Robert E. Lucas Jr., “A Million Mutinies: The Key to Economic Development,” excerpt from his book,
Lectures on Economic Growth
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).