Jane Jacob's Legacy

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

METRO - 200x-xx-xx - Jane Jacobs A review of two books about Jane Jacobs (1916 – 2006) appears in the July 31, 2009 of City Journal Magazine.  Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute wrote the review and it is available at:  http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0731hh.html .

The books are:

Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint (Random House, 256 pp., $27)

Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch (David R. Godine, 128 pp., $17.95)

A Wikipedia article about Mrs. Jacobs is available at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs . She is best known as the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York; Random House, 1961), a critique of the urban renewal as practiced in the 1950s in the United States.

Dwight Gardner's review of Anthony Flint's book about Jance Jacobs appeared in the New York Times on August 5, 2009.

H. Pike Oliver

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike worked for public agencies, including the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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