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Abbott, Berenice

Abrams, Charles

Ackerman, Frederick

Alinsky, Saul

American Collegiate Schools of Architecture

American Institute of Architects

American Labor Party (ALP). See also Jacobs, Jane, ALP affiliation

American Society of Planning Officials

American Sociometric Association. See Moreno, Jacob

Amerika Illustrated. See also Jacobs, Jane

Anderson, Lawrence

Anderson, Martin

Architectural criticism: Architectural Forum’s approach; Architectural Review’s approach; libel threats; “Modern Monsters,”; “urban design criticism,”. See also magazines and writers by name; Function and functionalism; “Googie” architecture; Haskell, Douglas; Modernism

Architectural Forum: connection to Amerika; prior to Jacobs’s work. See Blake, Peter; Haskell, Douglas; Jacobs, Jane; and other individuals by name

Architectural Record

Architectural Review, The: “Counter-Attack Against Subtopia,”; influence on Architectural Forum, Haskell, et al.; influence on Jacobs; “Man Made America,”; “Outrage,”. See also individuals by name; Townscape

Architecture:Brutalist; Modern; Neoclassical; New Empiricism; old buildings; Post-Modern; rationalist; regionalist; traditionalist. See also architects, buildings, magazines, and schools by name; Architectural criticism, Functionalism; Historic preservation; Housing; Modernism; Skyscrapers; Storefront buildings and institutions

Arendt, Hannah

Armstrong, Louis

Aronovici, Carol

Asheville, North Carolina

Astoria

Automobiles: Automobile/Motor Age; impacts on architecture, cities, housing, land use, transportation system; ownership; “roadtown,”; traffic congestion. See also Decentralization; Highways; Land use; Sprawl; Traffic; Washington Square

Bacon, Edmund

Bacon, Mardges

Bakema, Jacob

Baldwin, James

Baldwin, Roger

Baltimore, Maryland. See also Charles Center

Banham, Reyner

Barker, Paul

Barr, Alfred

Bauer (Wurster), Catherine

Bauhaus

Becket, Welton

Behrens, Peter

Belluschi, Pietro

Benson, Robert Alan

Berkeley, California

Berman, Marshall

Berman v. Parker

Blacklisting. See also Racism; Redlining; Segregation

Blake, Peter

“Blight,”. See also “Blight of Dullness”

“Blight of Dullness,”

Bohm, Ernest

Boston. See also North End

Bowery, The

Brasilia

Brooklyn

Buber, Martin

Buckley, William F., Jr.

Bunshaft, Gordon

Burchard, John Ely. See also Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Burnham, Daniel

Butzner, Elizabeth (Betty)

Capitalism

Caro, Robert

Cars. See Automobiles; Highways; Traffic

Charles Center, Baltimore

Cheek, Leslie

Chicago

Children

Churchill, Henry

Cincinnati, Ohio

Citizens Housing and Planning Council

City Beautiful movement

City College of New York8

City life City planning: British; civil defense; criticism of; history; relationship to landscape architecture; relationship to urban design; superblock planning. See also Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne; Decentralization; Functionalism; Garden Cities; Jacobs, Jane; “Non-Plan”; Radiant City; Site design; Townscape; Urban design

Civic Art movement

Civic centers

Civic design. See also Urban design

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Clavan, Irwin

Clay, Grady

Cleveland, Ohio. See also Green Valley

Cold War

Columbia University. See Jacobs, Jane, Columbia University studies

Columbus Park. See also Mulberry Bend

Committee to Save Washington Square. See Hayes, Shirley; Jacobs, Jane, Save Washington Square

Communism. See also Jacobs, Jane; McCarthy, Joseph; McCarthyism

Complexity

Complexity science. See also Weaver, Warren

Concentration (urban). See also Congestion; Density; Sprawl

Congestion (urban). See also Concentration; Density

Congrès Internationaux d ‘Architecture Moderne (CIAM)

Contextualism

Contini, Edgardo

Cooper, Louise

Cooper Union

Crane, David

“Creative class,”

Croley, Herbert

Cross Bronx Expressway

Cullen, Gordon

Cybernetics

Davies, Clarence

Decentralization (urban)

DeMars, Vernon

Density (urban). See also Concentration; Congestion

DeSapio, Carmine

Detroit

Dewey, John

Dilworth, Richard

Disneyland

Diversity (urban). See also Self-destruction of diversity

Dowling, Robert

“Dreary Deadlock of Public Housing.” See Public housing

Dudley, Edward

East Harlem6. See also Jacobs, Jane

East Harlem Council for Community Planning

Eggers & Higgins

Eisner, Lester

Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932

Eminent domain

Empire State Building

Environmentalism. See also Sprawl

Epstein, Jason

Etchells, Frederick4

Evans, Walker

Expressways. See Automobiles; Highways; Jacobs, Jane, Save Washington Square; Lower Manhattan Expressway; Spadina Expressway

Fagin, Henry

Farnsley, Charles

Farrand, Max

Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956

Federal Anthracite Coal Commission

Federal Housing Administration

Fedosimov, Pavel

Feiss, Carl

Feldt, Eric

Felt, James

Five Points

Flanagan, Richard

Foley, Mary Mix

Fortune

Fort Worth, Texas

Franklin, Benjamin

Freeways. See Highways

French, Fred

Fry, Albert

Fuller, Buckminster

Function and functionalism

Garden Cities. See also Howard, Ebenezer

Gardner, James

Gateway Center, Pittsburgh

Gentrification. See also Housing; Racism; Redlining; Segregation

Gesamtkunstwerk

Gestalt theory. See also Phenomenology

Giedion, Sigfried

Gilpatric, Chadbourne

Glass, Ruth. See also Gentrification

Glazer, Nathan

Goodman, Paul

Goodman, Percival

“Googie” architecture

Greenbelt towns

Green Valley housing development, Cleveland

Greenwich Village: Greenwich Village Study; history. See also Gentrification; Jacobs, Jane, Greenwich Village; Jacobs, Jane, Save the West Village; Washington Square

Gropius, Walter

Grotz, Paul

Gruen, Victor3

Grutzner, Charles

Guess, Joseph “Mack,”

Gutheim, Frederick

Gutkind, E. A.

Haar, Charles M.

Hall, Peter

Hamilton, Gloria

Hamlin, Talbot

Hardwick, Jeffrey

Harlem. See also East Harlem

Harper’s Bazaar

Harper’s Magazine

Harrington, Michael

Harrison, Wallace K.

Hartman, Chester

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Graduate School of Design. See also Sert, Josep Lluís; Urban design, Harvard conferences

Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies

Harvard Square

Haskell, Douglas: approach to architectural criticism; Architectural Record; The New Student; Creative Art; early years; The Nation; work with Jacobs. See also Architectural Forum; “Googie” architecture

Haskell, Helen

Haskell, Henry J.

Hastings, Hubert de Cronin

Hauf, Harold

Haussmann, Georges-Eugène

Hayek, F. A.

Hayes, Shirley

Hazen, Joseph

Hell’s Kitchen

Hemphill, Robert H.

Higgins, North Carolina

Highways. See also Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956

Hine, Lewis

Hiss, Alger

Historic preservation

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

Holden, Arthur C.

Holland, Leicester B.

Hoover, J. Edgar4

House and Garden

House & Home

House Committee on Un-American Activities. See also Jacobs, Jane, “un-American” activities

Howard, Ebenezer. See also Garden Cities

Housing: high-income; high-rise; low-income; middle-income; rehabilitation and renovation; row houses. See also housing projects by city and name; Infill housing; Jacobs, Jane, “unslumming” concept; Public housing; Redlining; Segregation

Howe, George

Humphrey, Henry

Ickes, Harold

Infill housing. See also “Piecemeal” redevelopment; Site design

Jack, Hulan

Jackson, J. B.

Jacobs, Allan

Jacobs, Jane: activism; American Labor Party (ALP) affiliation; Amerika Illustrated, work for; architectural criticism; Architectural Forum, work for; children; Cities and the Wealth of Nations; city planning, admiration and criticism of; Coast Watchers, The; Columbia University studies; communism, remarks on; conference participation; Constitutional Chaff; Dark Age Ahead; Department of State, work for; DeWitt Clinton housing project; “Downtown Is for People,”; East Harlem6; ecology of cities; Economy of Cities, The; early life and work in NYC; early life and work in Scranton; East Harlem6; epistemology; family; FBI investigation; fiction writing; freelance writing; “governing and planning districts,”; Great Depression, life during; Greenwich Village; Haskell, Douglas, working relationship with; high school; Hudson Street; Iron Age, The, writing for; “Jane Jacobs blocks,”; land use (see Concentration; Density; Land use); libertarianism, comments on; Loyalty Security Board investigation; maiden name; methods of thinking and working; “metropolitan government,”; Nature of Economies, The; New York University journalism courses; Office of War Information (OWI), work for; “Pavement Pounders” and “Olympians,”; poetry; Question of Separatism, The; rhetoric; Save the Sidewalks; Save the West Village; Save Washington Square (see also Washington Square); Scranton campaign; Scranton Republican, work for; segregation and racial discrimination, views on (see also Diversity; Racism; Segregation); self-government, belief in; “sidewalk ballet,”; stereotypes of; Systems of Survival; systems of thought; Toronto; Toronto: Considering Self-Government; “un-American” activities; union activities; “unslumming” concept; West Village Houses; “working districts” essays (see Manhattan, city districts; Vogue)

Jacobs, John

Jacobs, Robert Hyde, Jr.

Jacoby, Helmut

Jameson, Fredric

Johns Hopkins

Johnson, Lee

Johnson, Philip

Joint Emergency Committee to Close Washington Square. See Jacobs, Jane, Save Washington Square

Jones, Barclay

Jones, Victor

Justement, Louis

Kahn, Louis

Kallman, Gerhard

Kansas City

Kent, Leticia

Kepes, György

Ketchum, Gina & Sharp Architects Kiley, Dan

Kirk, William

Kitimat, British Columbia

Kling, Vincent2

Knickerbocker Village

Koolhaas, Rem

Kostritsky, Penny

Kuhn, Thomas

La Guardia, Fiorello

Laissez-faire planning and development. See also “Non-Plan”

Lake Meadows, Chicago

Landscape architecture

Land use. See also Concentration; Density; Sprawl

Lang, Glenna

Le Corbusier: changing ideas; Cold War suspicions; influence on city planning; influence on “International Style,”; Jacobs’s criticism and understanding of; others’ criticism of; rhetoric; sprawl and suburbs, views of; visit to NYC

Larrabee, Eric

Las Vegas

Lehman, Herbert H.

Lescaze, William

Lever House

Liberalism

Libertarianism

Lincoln Center,

Lion’s Head coffee shop

Lippert, T. W.

Logue, Edward

London

Los Angeles

Lower East Side

Lower Manhattan Expressway

Luce, Henry R.

Lurie, Ellen

Lynch, Kevin

Main Street

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manhattan: “creative destruction,”. See also neighborhoods by name

Manhattan city districts: business; creative; Diamond; Financial; Flower; Fur; Garment; Leather; slum sight-seeing; vice

Manhattanism

Marshall Plan

Marxism

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

May, Ernst

Mayer, Albert

Mayer, Martin

McCarthy, James

McCarthy, Joseph5. See also McCarthyism

McCarthyism

McHarg, Ian

McQuade, Walter

Mead, Margaret

Medieval cities (including Pirenne’s Medieval Cities)

Mendelsohn, Erich

Meyerson, Martin

Middle class (in the city). See also Gentrification; Housing; Suburbs and suburbanization

Middle Income Co-Operative Village (Mi-Cove)

Miller, Richard5

Modernism and modernity: antimodernism; “modernism of the street,”; modernization of cities and housing; “orthodox” modernism; superficial modernism, criticisms of. See also architects by name; Architectural criticism; Architecture, Modern; Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne; Functionalism; Museum of Modern Art

Montgomery, Dorothy

Moreno, Jacob L.

Moses, Robert: bridges, highways, and parkways; “bulldozer approach,”; early projects and roles; “ghost” of RM; housing activities; Jacobs’s battles with; “Robert Moses approach,”; urban redevelopment and renewal; Washington Square redevelopment. See also Cross Bronx Expressway; Hayes, Shirley; Jacobs, Jane, Save Washington Square; Lower Manhattan Expressway

Mulberry Bend

Mumford, Lewis: advocacy for modern architecture, cities, and housing; advocacy for urban redevelopment; architectural critic; criticism of Jacobs; decentralization and Garden Cities; foreword to Medieval Cities; regionalism; support for Jacobs; support for Washington Square;

“unbuilding” of civilization; University of Pennsylvania; utopianism

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

Nairn, Ian

Nation, The National Association of Housing Officials

Natural History magazine

Nelson, George

Nelson, Richard

New Deal

New Orleans

New Republic, The

New School for Social Research

New York City: “Changing New York,”; governance; history and growth; infrastructure; Jacobs’s dedication to; neighborhood structure; “New York’s Office Boom,”; politics; redevelopment approach. See also boroughs and neighborhoods by name; Le Corbusier, visit to New York; Manhattan, districts; New York City housing projects; Regional Plan of New York

New York City Board of Estimate

New York City Committee on City Planning

New York City Housing and Redevelopment Board New York City Housing Authority

New York City housing projects: Carver Houses; Corlears Hook; Delano Village; DeWitt Clinton (see Jacobs, Jane); Dyckman Houses; East River Houses; First Houses; Fort Greene Houses; Franklin Houses; Harlem River Houses; Jacob Riis Houses; James Weldon Johnson; Jefferson Houses; Kingsview Homes; Lexington Houses; Madison Houses; Martin Luther King Jr. Towers; Morningside Gardens; River Gardens (Rutgerstown); Stephen Foster Houses; Sunnyside Gardens; Taft Houses; Wagner Houses; Washington Houses; Williamsburg Houses0

New York City Planning Commission

New York City Public Library

New York City Slum Clearance Committee

New Yorker, The

New York Herald Tribune–67

New York Journal-American

New York State Housing Board

New York Times9

New York Times Company v. Sullivan

New York University (NYU)

New York World’s Fair of 1939

“Non-Plan,”

Norfolk, Virginia

North End (Boston)

Northland Shopping Center

Office of War Information (OWI). See Jacobs, Jane

O’Gorman, Juan

Organicism (city as organism)

Orwell, George

Otte, Herman

Oud, J. J. P.

Page, Max

Paradise Park

Paris

Parking. See Automobiles; Land use Passannante, Bill

Pei, I. M.

Performance zoning. See also Zoning

Perkins, G. Holmes. See also University of Pennsylvania

Perkins & Will

Peter A. Frasse and Company

Pevsner, Nikolaus

Phenomenology. See also Gestalt theory

Philadelphia: Cambridge Plaza Homes; Center City; Eastwick; Greenways; Harrison Plaza; Jacobs’s connections to; Mill Creek housing development; Penn Towne; “Philadelphia Cure,”; “Philadelphia’s Redevelopment,”; PSFS building; row houses; Society Hill; Spring Garden Homes; urban redevelopment. See also Bacon, Edmund; Kahn, Louis

Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority

“Piecemeal engineering,”

“Piecemeal” redevelopment. See also Berman v. Parker; Housing, rehabilitation; Infill housing; “Piecemeal engineering” Site design

Pirenne, Henri

Pittsburgh

Plato (Republic)

Pompeii

Popper, Karl

Post, Langdon

Pratt Institute

Prentice, Perry

Price, Cedric

Progressive Architecture

Providence, Rhode Island

Pruitt-Igoe housing development, St. Louis

Public housing: competition with private development; “Dreary Deadlock” of; East Harlem as “guinea pig,”; “pathology” of; politics of; as “projects,”; “Public Housing … for People,”5; subsidies for private housing as alternative; Title III. See also housing projects by city; Housing

Public Housing Administration

Public life. See also Jacobs, Jane, activism

Public realm and public space

Public transportation. See also Automobiles; Decentralization; Highways; Traffic

Public Works Administration, “Puppet” organizations

Queens, NYC

Racism. See also Redlining; Segregation

Radburn, New Jersey

Radiant City. See also Le Corbusier

“Radiant Garden City,”

Redlining. See also Racism; Segregation

Regional Plan Association. See also Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs

Regional planning

Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs

Richards, J. M.

Riis, Jacob

“Roadtown,”. See also Automobiles; Sprawl

Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Foundation

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rosenfield, Isadore

Rosner, Henry

Rouse, James

Rushmore, George

Salisbury, Harrison

Sanders, Marion K.

San Francisco

Saturday Evening Post

Save the Sidewalks. See Jacobs, Jane

Save the West Village. See Jacobs, Jane

“Scatteration,”. See also Concentration; Land use; Sprawl

Schuyler, Montgomery

Scientific American

Scott-Brown, Denise

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Seagram Building

Segregation (racial and economic). See also Racism; Redlining

Self-destruction of diversity. See also Diversity; Gentrification

Self-government. See Jacobs, Jane

Sert, Josep Lluís

Sexism

Seymour, W. N.

Shaffer, Marshall

Shopping centers

Shreve, Richmond

Simkhovitch, Mary K.

Simons, Hans

Site design

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Skyscrapers. See also Housing, high-rise

Slayton, William

Sloan, John

Slum Clearance Committee of New York3

Slums: ghettos; “ghetto pattern,”; sight-seeing (“slumming”); “slum shifting,”; “slum surgery,”. See also Jacobs, Jane, “unslumming” concept; New York City Slum Clearance Committee; Slum clearance; Slum Clearance Committee of New York

Slum clearance

Small Parks Act of 1887

Smith, Alfred E.

Smith, Chloethiel Woodard

Smithson, Alison and Peter

Social capital

Socialism

Southdale Shopping Center. See also Gruen, Victor; Shopping Centers

Soviet Life

Soviet Union

Spadina Expressway

Spaulding, E. Wilder

Sprawl

Starr, Roger

Steinberg, Saul

Stein, Clarence

Stephenson, Gordon

St. Louis, Missouri. See also Pruitt-Igoe

Stone, Edward D.

Stonorov, Oscar

Storefront buildings and institutions

Stuyvesant Town

“Suburbanized urbanism,”

Suburbs and suburbanization. See also Decentralization; Garden Cities; Sprawl

Subways. See Public transportation

Sullivan, Louis

Syracuse, New York

Tankel, Stanley

Tanner, Ogden

Team 10

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Thoreau, Henry David

Toronto. See also Jacobs, Jane, Toronto: Considering Self-Government

Town and Country Planning Act

Townscape. See also Architectural Review

Traffic. See Automobiles

Transit-oriented design. See also Public transportation

Tucker, Raymond

Tudor City

Tunnard, Christopher

Tyng, Anne

Tyrwhitt, Jaqueline

Union for Concerted Moral Effort

Union Settlement (House) Association. See also East Harlem; Jacobs, Jane; Kirk, William; Lurie, Ellen

United Neighborhood Houses of New York

University of Pennsylvania. See also Civic design; Crane, David; Urban design, Penn-Rockefeller Conference; Wheaton, William

University of Pittsburgh

University of Toronto

Urban design: early use of the term; Harvard GSD urban design conferences; Jacobs’s connections to; new discipline; Penn-Rockefeller Conference on Urban Design Criticism; relationship to Townscape; relationship to urban renewal. See also Crane, David; Lynch, Kevin; Rockefeller Foundation

Urban renewal: legislation; “negro removal,” as; public subsidies. See also cities and housing projects by name; Berman v. Parker; Eminent domain; U.S. Housing Act of 1949; U.S. Housing Act of 1954

Urban Renewal Administration

U.S. Constitution. See Jacobs, Jane, Constitutional Chaff

U.S. Housing Act of 1949

U.S. Housing Act of 1954

Utopianism

Van den Haag

Van der Rohe, Mies

Venturi, Robert

Vernon, Raymond

Village Voice, The

Violich, Francis

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Vladek, Charney

Voelcker, John

Vogue. See also Manhattan city districts

Voice of America

Von Molte, Willo

Wagner, Robert F., Jr.

Wall, Rachele

Wall Street

Wall Street Journal

Ware, Caroline

Washington, DC: redevelopment; seat of government; Southwest Washington

Washington Square

Washington University

Weaver, Warren

Webber, Melvin

Weeks, Edward

Weese, Harry

Wensberg, Erik

West Village Houses. See Jacobs, Jane

Wetmore, Louis

Wheaton, William L. C.

White, E. B.

White Horse Tavern

Whitney, Henry

Whyte, William H., Jr.

Will, Philip, Jr.. See also Perkins & Will

Willkie, Wendell

Wood, Elizabeth

Works Progress Administration

Wright, Andrade & Amenta

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Wright, Henry

Wurster, Catherine Bauer. See Bauer, Catherine

Wurster, William

Yale Art Gallery

Yale University Graduate Program in City Planning

Yamasaki, Minoru

Zeckendorf, William

Zeidler, Frank

Zoning. See also Function and functionalism; Performance zoning

Zucker, Mildred