Constitutional Chaff: Rejected Suggestions of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, with Explanatory Argument (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941).
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House, 1961).
The Economy of Cities (New York: Random House, 1969).
The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty (New York: Random House, 1980).
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (New York: Random House, 1984).
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (New York: Random House, 1992).
A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece (New York: Random House, 1995). The Nature of Economies (New York: Random House, 2000).
Dark Age Ahead (New York: Random House, 2004).
In July 1958, Jacobs prepared a résumé in support of her Rockefeller Foundation grant and listed her major writing projects and publications to date (RF 1.2 200R, New School, 390:3380, Rockefeller Archive Center). She highlighted, for example, freelance writing for Vogue, Cue, the New York Herald Tribune, and Harper’s Bazaar, as well as her book Constitutional Chaff and articles completed for The Iron Age, Amerika Illustrated, and Architectural Forum. Some of these writings, discussed in this book, are saved in her papers at Boston College’s Burns Library; some are reprinted in Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs, edited by Max Allen; and I identified others by way of archival notes and clues and by searching magazines, microfilm, and newspaper archives. As for Jacobs’s work at Architectural Forum, her résumé included the important statement that she had “written articles appearing in almost every issue beginning with May of ’52.” The following articles, she continued, “are most relevant to my present interest in writing about the nature of cities”:
“New Thinking on Shopping Centers,” Mar. 1953
“Good-by Neighborhood Schools?,” Apr. 1953
“Philadelphia,” Jul. 1955
“Cleveland,” Aug. 1955
“Washington,” Jan. 1956
“The Fort Worth Plan,” May 1956
“Pavement Pounders and Olympians” (editorial), May 1956 “The Missing Link in City Redevelopment,” Jun. 1956
“By 1976 What City Pattern?” (editorial) and City Pattern sections on “Central City” (concentration; ring freeways; traffic; housing), Sep. 1956 “Why Aren’t There More Good Shopping Centers?,” Dec. 1956 “Our ‘Surplus’ Land” (editorial), Mar. 1957 “New York’s Office Boom,” Mar. 1957 “Row Houses for Cities,” May 1957
“Symposium on what to do about public housing,” Jun. 1957
“Metropolitan Government,” Aug. 1957
“The City’s Threat to Open Land,” Jan. 1958
“Round-up of redevelopment projects,” Apr. 1958
“New Heart for Baltimore,” Jun. 1958
“What Is A City?” (editorial), Jul. 1958
“Housing for the Elderly,” Aug. 1958
Also, “Downtown is for People,” Fortune magazine, Apr. 1958
Following the standard editorial practice, for most of the time she worked at Architectural Forum many of her articles were not bylined. This policy was discussed in the mid-1950s—her colleague Walter McQuade advocated a change to bylines or author initials in October 1954—but the policy did not change until some years later. As such, the articles that Jacobs listed were only some of the articles that she wrote or collaborated on for Forum between May 1952 and October 1958, when she went on leave to write Death and Life. Although I have identified many more written for and before her work at Forum, her complete bibliography may never be known.
AF |
Architectural Forum |
Alinsky Papers |
Saul Alinsky Papers, Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin |
AI |
Amerika Illustrated |
AR |
The Architectural Review |
CBW Papers |
Catherine Bauer Wurster Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley |
CC |
Constitutional Chaff: Rejected Suggestions of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, with Explanatory Argument CPR Civilian Personnel Records, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO |
CWN |
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life |
D&L |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
Dark Age Ahead |
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EOC |
The Economy of Cities |
FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation Archives |
Haskell Papers |
Douglas Haskell Papers, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York |
Hayes Papers |
Shirley Hayes Papers, New-York Historical Society, New York |
IA |
The Iron Age |
ITM |
Max Allen, ed., Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs (Owen Sound, Ontario: Ginger, 1997) |
Jacobs Papers |
Jane Jacobs Papers, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Boston, MA |
LGWA |
La Guardia and Wagner Archives, La Guardia Community College, City University of New York |
NYCHA |
New York City Housing Authority |
NYHT |
New York Herald Tribune |
NYT |
The New York Times |
RAC |
Rockefeller Foundation Archives, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York |
RF |
Rockefeller Foundation |
Sert Papers |
Josep Lluís Sert Papers, Loeb Library, Special Collections, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA |
SOS |
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics |
USAR |
Union Settlement Association Records, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York |
VV |
The Village Voice |