Jane Jacobs

Preservationists Want to Save Penn Station. Yes, That Penn Station.

by Kriston Capps

The one thing every New Yorker can agree on is that Penn Station is terrible. Why is this benighted hellhole being championed for historic preservation? 

Video of the Week: "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City”

A film about the battle between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses

Why Jane Jacobs Matters Now

by Peter L. Laurence

The answer is in her last book, which almost no one reads or remembers. But her biographer thinks it’s the one we need now.