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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
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, Mardges
Bakema, Jacob
Baldwin, James
Baldwin, Roger
Baltimore, Maryland. See also Charles Center
Banham, Reyner
Barker, Paul
Barr, Alfred
Bauhaus
Becket, Welton
Behrens, Peter
Belluschi, Pietro
Benson, Robert Alan
Berkeley, California
Berman, Marshall
Blacklisting. See also Racism; Redlining; Segregation
Blake, Peter
“Blight,”. See also “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
Cheek, Leslie
Chicago
Children
Churchill, Henry
Cincinnati, Ohio
Citizens Housing and Planning Council
City Beautiful movement
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
“Creative class,”
Croley, Herbert
Cross Bronx Expressway
Cullen, Gordon
Cybernetics
Davies, Clarence
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
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
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
Grutzner, Charles
Guess, Joseph “Mack,”
Gutheim, Frederick
Gutkind, E. A.
Haar, Charles M.
Hall, Peter
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
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
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
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
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
Northland Shopping Center
Office of War Information (OWI). See Jacobs, Jane
O’Gorman, Juan
Organicism (city as organism)
Orwell, George
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
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” 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
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
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 University
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