Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs (66 page)

To save space in the Notes, the following frequently cited sources have been abbreviated as follows:

ARCHIVES

Burns—Jane Jacobs Papers, MS 1995–29, John J. Burns Library, Boston College

CollPark—National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland

ColumbiaRare—Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, New York

FBI—FBI file on Jane Jacobs

HaskellPap—Douglas Haskell Papers, Columbia University, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York, New York

Rockefeller—Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York

StL—National Archives and Records Administration, St. Louis, Missouri

BOOKS BY JANE JACOBS

(full citations located in the Bibliography)

Alaska
—
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska

Chaff—Constitutional Chaff

CityWealth
—
Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Dark
—
Dark Age Ahead

D&L
—
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

EofC
—
The Economy of Cities

Girl—The Girl on the Hat

Nature
—
The Nature of Economies

QofS—The Question of Separatism

Systems
—
Systems of Survival

OTHER BOOKS

Ethics
—
Ethics in Making a Living: The Jane Jacobs Conference
, ed. by Fred Lawrence. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.

KentVillage—Leticia Kent, oral history interview conducted for Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, October 1997.

LaurenceDiss—Peter L. Laurence, “Jane Jacobs, American Architectural Criticism and Urban Design Theory, 1935–1965,” University of Pennsylvania dissertation, 2009.

Matter
—
Ideas That Matter
, ed. Max Allen. Owen Sound, Ontario: Ginger Press, 1997.

Projects
—Samuel Zipp,
Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Transatlantic
—Christopher Klemek,
The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Wisdom—
Sonia Hirt, ed.,
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs.
New York: Routledge, 2012.

WPA
—
The WPA Guide to New York City.
New York: Pantheon, 1982 (originally published 1939).

INTRODUCTION

“a screed of facts”
: Dillon, p. 41.

“There are ways to disagree”
: Roger Sale, “Thinking About Cities,”
Hudson Review
(spring 1970): 178.

“What a dear, sweet grandmother”
:
Matter
, p. 15.

“you really should not have sounded off”
: Memo, Doug Haskell to JJ, July 2, 1959, HaskellPap.

“the most influential urban thinker”
: “The most influential urban thinker of all time”—2009 Planetizen, ahead of Frederick Law Olmsted, Lewis Mumford, Robert Moses, Le Corbusier, Richard Florida, James Rouse, and Thomas Jefferson.

“genius of common sense”
: Lang and Wunsch.

“godmother of urban America”
: Bole, p. 22.

“the Rachel Carson of the economic world”
:
Matter
, p. 205.

“bitchily observant”
: Her
Systems of Survival
described as “a Platonic dialogue as bitchily observant as a Woody Allen film,”
Matter
, p.166.

“channeling Jane Jacobs”
: Christopher Hawthorne, “How Woody Allen and Terence Malick Gave Their Summer Movies a Nostalgic Glow,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 23, 2011.

“Luther nailed”
: Campanella, p. 143.

“like a trip to Graceland”
: Dave Cieslewicz, “Citizen Dave”: Stalking Jane Jacobs,”
http://www.isthmus.com
, accessed April 9, 2012.

“Society of Saint Jane”
: Mariana Mogilevich, “Society of Saint Jane,” review of
Block by Block”: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
, book and museum exhibit,
Next American City
, spring 2008.

“What would Jane Jacobs do”
: Sandy Ikeda, “Know Thine Enemy, Know Thyself”: What Would Jane Jacobs Do?,”
Freeman
, posted October 4, 2011.

“one-lady Venice”
:
Matter
, p. 201.

“Mrs. Insight”
: Harvey, p. 41.

“must move in different circles”
: Interview with Hannah Gartner, CBC, October 15, 1997, Burns, VHS03.

“Barbara Fritchie of the Slums”
: Article about JJ,
New York Herald Tribune
, January 31, 1965, scrapbook, Burns, 23:6.

“Madame Defarge leading an aroused populace”
:
Matter
, p. 50.

“What is its purpose”
: Wachtel, p. 42.

“I just wanted to know”
:
Matter
, p. 17.

“finest Girl Scout troop”
:
Ethic
s, p. 294.

“The most elementary point”
: From December 1964 draft of
EofC
, Burns, 8.

“Think for a minute”
:
Ethics
, p. 306.

“The only way”
: Fred Kaplan article about JJ,
Boston Globe
, April 12, 2000.

“Toronto grieved”
: Wellman, p. 2.

“learned a great deal”
:
Matter
, p. 3.

grew up around waterfalls
:
Matter
, p. 26.

“equalization of pay”
: “Answers to Interrogatory for Jane Butzner Jacobs,” responding to question #1, accompanying letter of JJ to Carroll St. Claire, July 22, 1949, Burns, 5:4.

“would not be available”
:
Matter
, p. 22.

CHAPTER 1: A GENEROUS PLACE TO LIVE

Back in the 1850s
: Columbia County Historical & Genealogical Society, library, museum, and
Newsletter
, for maps, old photos, clippings, and other background on the life of Espy and Bloomsburg; WPA Project 5175, 1936, includes “Espy Notes” scrapbook, with “History of the North Branch Canal, 1828–1901”; articles about Espy from
Berwick Enterprise
, December 22, 1900;
Morning Press
, June 25, 1938;
Morning Press
, February 1937; “The Passing Throng,” newspaper article, November 4, 1936;
Walk Bloomsburg: Self-guided Tours of the Historic District;
William M. Baillie, ed.,
Discovering Bloomsburg: A Bicentennial History
(Bloomsburg, PA: Bloomsburg Bicentennial Commission, 2002).

Both were central Pennsylvania natives
: See JJ, “Reading, Writing, and Love-Apples”; “Captain James Boyd Robison Found Dead,”
Democratic Sentinel
, March 5, 1909; federal censuses from 1870–1920;
Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania
(Columbia County, PA: J. H. Beers & Co., 1915);
Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
(Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899); Marc Fritz, “Robison Family Endured Un-Civil War,”
http://www.robisonsuncivilwar.blogspot.com
, distilled from Gertrude Keller Johnston,
Dear Pa…And So It Goes
(Harrisburg, PA: Business Service Company, 1971); genealogical chart of Robisons and Butzners compiled by Bess Robison Butzner, Burns, 4/7;
Souvenir Views of the State Normal School, Bloomsburg, PA
, and school catalogs from the period; thanks to Robert Dunkelberger, Bloomsburg University archivist, for supplying these and other information from the Normal School archives on the Robisons.

Bessie wasn’t a teacher anymore
:
American Journal of Nursing
(1904), p. 555, records “Miss Bessie Robison admitted to membership” in the Philadelphia Polyclinic Alumnae Association on March 3, 1904; “The Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine,”
Trained Nurse and Hospital Review
32 (1904): 419: “The graduating exercises of the Polyclinic School for Nurses was held April 29 at the hospital,” diplomas presented to fifteen young women, including Bessie M. Robison; Roberta Mayhew West,
History of Nursing in Pennsylvania
(Pennsylvania State Nurses’ Association, 1938), pp. 623–27. In an interview, the late Kay Butzner, Jane’s sister-in-law, says Bessie was simply bored with teaching in rural Pennsylvania and wanted to try life in the big city.

what could you expect
: Wachtel, p. 426.

West Virginia mining town
: Chavez, Duer, and Fang, p. 46.

pile of undergarments
: Interview, Jim Jacobs.

Dr. Butzner had come
: Greene and Greene, Butzner Family History; see also
Matter
, p. 150; Wachtel, p. 44; (Fredericksburg)
Free Lance
, April 27, 1915, on death of William J. Butzner; Garrett Epps, “The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Is Losing a Star: Uncle Billy’s Boy,” (Richmond)
Style Weekly
, January 1, 1980; “Office of Commonwealth’s Attorney to be Filled by Billy Butzner,”
Daily Star
, December 31, 1909; young Dr. Butzner’s early whereabouts in Scranton traced through city directories of those years;
Philadelphia Medical Journal
, May 28, 1904, p. 1049.

“All the field hands”
: Greene and Greene, Butzner Family History, p. 79.

still getting mail
: President’s Office, American National Red Cross, Pennsylvania State Branch to Bessie M. Robinson [sic], at 1622 Summer Street, Philadelphia, December 12, 1908, Burns, 24:1.