Original Minds: Jane Jacobs on her groundbreaking work

Date
2002-10-06
Interviewer: Wachtel, Eleanor
Host: Wachtel, Eleanor
Interviewee: Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006
Producer: Rabinovitch, Sandra
Producer: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Description

Writers & Company presents more "Original Minds" - writers and thinkers who have made a difference in their work and lives. This week, Canadian Jane Jacobs. In the more than forty years since the publication of her groundbreaking book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs' influence has been extraordinary - not only on architects, community workers, and planners, but also on Nobel Prize-winning economists and ecologists.

Physical description
1 online resource (1 audio file (52 min., 07 sec.))
Location
Toronto (Ont.)
Subject
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. English Networks
CBC Books
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Wachtel, Eleanor. Writers & company
Authorship
Authors, Canadian--Interviews
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. Works. Selections
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. Death and life of great American cities
City planning--United States
Urban renewal--United States
Urban policy--United States
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Innocents abroad
New York (N.Y.)
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006--Childhood and youth
Scranton (Pa.)
Mitchell, John, 1870-1919
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. Systems of survival
Business ethics
Political ethics
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. Nature of economies
Environmental economics
Toronto (Ont.)
National characteristics, Canadian
Genre
Discussion
Interviews
Sound recordings
Type of resource
Sound recording non-musical
Language
English
Part of
Writers & Company
Identifier
WritersAndCo-2002-10-06
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