Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs (80 page)

It became the measure
: For numerous examples of the influences of
Death and Life
internationally, see edited works by Hirt; Schubert; Page and Mennel.

correct in all she saw?
: After living in the Annex, Jane herself, according to son Ned, “modified” her insistence on the central importance of very high-density neighborhoods. “I think she realized that maybe she had highballed it a bit,” in response to the prevailing low-density faith of the 1950s.

“peak sprawl”
: Emily Badger, “Have We Reached Peak Sprawl?”
Atlantic Cities
, October 2, 2013.

“Who could have envisioned”
: Goldberger, “Tribute to Jane Jacobs.”

“the influence of Jane Jacobs”
: Montgomery, p. 273.

James Marston Fitch once observed
: Excerpt from
The Architecture of the American People
in Burns, 2:20.

“We’d strap her on the front”
: “An Urban Visionary,”
Vancouver Sun
, April 26, 2006. See also
Matter
, pp. 187, 210–11.

she worried she’d hurt herself
: Interview, Jim Jacobs.

“While I can always use more money”
: JJ to William K. Reilly, January 29, 1986, Burns, 6:3.

“Much as I feel fondly attached”
: JJ to George Rupp, December 4, 2000, Burns, 4:2.

“About a year and a half ago”
: Peter Laurence to JJ, February 28, 1999, Burns, 39:11.

“a comprehensive intellectual biography”
: Christopher Klemek to JJ, March 4, 2002, Burns, 43:10.

“Anyone with this amount of sway”
: Vanda Sendzimir to JJ, October 16, 1995; JJ to Sendzimir, October 20, 1995; at Burns, 6:5.

“Cityscapes, Sidewalks and Scranton”
: Michael Illuzzi to JJ, June 26, 2001; JJ to Illuzzi on June 26, his reply on July 18, her response on July 24; at Burns, 4:5.

“These past six months”
: Timothy Patitsas to JJ, January 26, 2000; JJ to Patitsas, February 12, 2000; Patitsas to JJ, March 13, 2000; at Burns, 7:1. See also “The City as Liturgy: An Orthodox Theologian Corresponds with Jane Jacobs About a Gentle Reconciliation of Science and Religion,” in George D. Dragas, ed.,
Legacy of Achievement
(Boston: Newrome Press, 2007), pp. 799–819.

“the Kings”
: See, for example, Eli Yarhi, “Tale of Two Kings: The Story of Toronto’s Real Estate Transformation,”
http://www.psrbrokerage.com
; “Regeneration in the Kings: Directions and Emerging Trends,” Toronto Urban Development Services, City Planning Division, November 2002; interview, Ken Greenberg.

“It’s magical”
: Steigerwald, p. 8.

“saved one neighbourhood”
: Wellman.

“so many parking lots”
: “Random Comments,”
Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review
28, no. 4 (2001): 540.

“The first hit our city took”
: Geeman’s Blog, October 17, 2014,
http://www.geeman655.wordpress.com
.

“shit disturber”
: Interview, John Downing; Downing’s article, “Jane Jacobs: She Listened to No One.”

“smiled benignly”
: Fulford,
Accidental City
, p. 83.

the Order of Canada
: Burns, 21:7.

“Ideas That Matter”
: Account drawn from Cayo; interviews, Alan Broadbent, Jim Jacobs; event materials, programs, brochures, and planning documents, including John Sewell, typescript, “Rethinking Cities, Economies, Countries: A Symposium with Jane Jacobs as Mentor,” April 29, 1996, Burns, 20:6–7.

“I agreed they could do this”
: JJ to John Butzner, n.d., but annotated as 1997, Burns.

“So bedazzling”
: Cayo.

“Have you ever been?”
: JJ to Ellen Perry, August 14, 1999, Burns, 1. The balloon ride was a gift from Alan Broadbent, a philanthropist and friend.

“At some point along the trail”
:
D&L
, p. xxvi.

CHAPTER 25: CIVILIZATION’S CHILD

“is to learn economics from nature”
:
Nature
, p. 8.

“I’m convinced”
:
Nature
, p. 11.

“a blob of multiplied generality”
:
Nature
, p. 17.

“Our remote ancestors”
:
Nature
, p. 23.

“human beings exist”
:
Nature
, p. ix.

“Those insufferable yuppies”
: Mike Davis, “Green Streets,” review of
The Nature of Economies
,
Village Voice
, April 11, 2000.

“fresh and provocative”
: Steven Shaviro, review of
The Nature of Economies
, blog,
http://www.shaviro.com
, January 16, 2003.

“come to be seen”
: Taylor, “Jane Jacobs (1916–2006): An Appreciation.”

listened
to one another
: Patrick [last name unknown] to JJ, April 4, 2000, Burns, 1:11: “Your characters are basically kind to each other and take each other’s ideas seriously…They listen to each other, another thing I see too little of among intellectuals.”

“learning to walk again”
: JJ to Myron Magnet, February 13, 2000, Burns, 1:11.

“I’m taking the glucosamine”
: JJ to Sally [?], June 19, 2000, Burns, 3:6.

“You were poised as a queen”
: Margot Gayle to JJ, April 2, 2000, Burns, 7:1.

“nice wheeled walker”
: JJ to Anneke, April 23, 2001, Burns, 7:2. The previous year, Jane had written a local medical supply company that she wished now to buy the walker she had been renting: “It now seems that I am going to need this walker indefinitely, rather than temporarily as I first supposed,” JJ to Therapy Supplies and Rental, July 10, 2000, Burns, 7:7.

“merry leading-edge explorers”
:
Dark
, dedication.

“worked day and night”
: JJ to David Ebershoff, November 26, 2003, David Ebershoff papers.

“Crisp, entertaining”
: Kirkus review attached to David Ebershoff to JJ, February 24, 2004, Burns, 43:2.

promotional tour
: 2004 tour chronology supplied by Anne Collins, Random House Canada.

“serfs, feudal tenants”
: Jane Jacobs, draft of Mumford lecture, David Ebershoff papers. The several versions of the lecture show Jane really working it over. It ends: “Thank you for your patience as I struggle, like all of us, to find sane footing in the pervading insanity and insecurity of the shaky present tense.”

“grotesque parodies”
: Essay based on Mumford lecture, JJ, “The Greening of the City,”
New York Times
, May 16, 2004.

“because people make it new”
: Gopnik.

“the first theoretical explanation”
: JJ, draft table of contents for unfinished book, then titled
Uncovering the Economy: A New Hypothesis
, Ebershoff papers.

formal contracts
: Anne Collins to Aaron Milrad and Jane Jacobs, April 19, 2004, Anne Collins papers.

“I thought she would be with us forever”
: See also Sandra Martin, “Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist.”

“first terrific pages”
: David Ebershoff to JJ, December 10, 2004, Ebershoff papers.

“You must think”
: JJ to David Ellerman, March 18, 2005, Burns. See also JJ to Tom G. Palmer, June 10, 2003, Burns, 43:6, where Jane takes umbrage at the few dollars an editor proposes to pay her for an article: “It is not only ‘nominal,’ as you characterize it, but insulting. You might do better to explain to your prospective victims or martyrs” why they offered so paltry a sum—whereupon she makes her way through a bleak litany of possible reasons.

“Unwinding Vicious Spirals”
:
Dark
, p. 215.

supposed to have joked
: Martin, “Jane Jacobs, Writer, Urban Planner, Activist.”

applying the word “theorist”
: Robert Lucas, in “Economies and Growth,”
Ideas That Matter
3, no. 3 n.d., p. 12.

retreat to the abstract
: Several of Jane’s friends observed this change in her.

three women
: See, for example, Rebecca Solnit, “Three Who Made a Revolution,”
Nation
, March 16, 2006; Urbashi Vaid, blog, “Women as Public Intellectuals: The Legacies of Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson and Betty Friedan,” November 15, 2011; “Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan: One Provocative Evening,” http://www.womenvoicesforchange.org [website is no longer active], November 15, 2011; Josh Stephens, “50 Years Later, Jacobs Still Leads a Sorority of Dissent,”
California Planning & Development Report
, December 28, 2011. The three women, Stephens writes, spoke for many “who had grown weary of the false promises of the 1950s.”

“ladies’ auxiliary”
: JJ, typed draft of her Mumford lecture, Ebershoff papers.

pushing a baby carriage
: Veronica Horwell, “Jane Jacobs,”
Guardian
, April 27, 2006; Sir Peter Hall, “In Context—Social Ideal Ends in Yuppy Ghettos,”
Planning Resource
, June 3, 2011.

“the first book on the subject”
: JJ to Jason Epstein, January 26, 1971, Random House Papers, RH 1365, ColumbiaRare.

“man’s fundamental propensity”
: Warren, p. 8.

“market mamas”
: JJ to Benjamin H. Hardy, February 2, 1985, Burns, 6:3.

“Like other women”
: JJ to Frank Mannheim, May 9, 2005, Burns, 43:8.

“an amateur in the professional’s den”
: Taylor, “Jane Jacobs (1916–2006): An Appreciation,” p. 1983.

“a revolutionary writer”
: Taylor, “Jane Jacobs (1916–2006): An Appreciation,” p. 1986.

“more about restoration”
: Mazer.