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

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver 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. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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