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Today's News - April 26, 2006

Tributes and appreciations: we will miss you, Jane Jacobs - let's hope we don't forget your lessons on how to make our cities great. -- A New Orleans neighborhood takes a step forward. -- Good news/bad news at Ground Zero. -- What we have - and haven't - learned from San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. -- Reports from Radical Craft. -- On a lighter note: The Empire State Building at 75: a grand celebration.

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Obituary: Farewell To A Friend: Like many in the city, Mayor David Miller was a fan of the late Jane Jacobs. He offered this touching tribute to the fallen city planner Tuesday...- CityPulse24 (Toronto)

Jane Jacobs, Urban Activist, 89...came up with a book that challenged and changed the way people view cities...- New York Times

Godmother of the American City: Jane Jacobs, renowned urbanist, activist, and author, dead at 89 [link to 2000 Q&A with James Howard Kunstler]- Metropolis Magazine

Remembering Jane Jacobs (1916 - 2006): Special section presents the top news articles about Jacobs from archives, as well as capsule reviews of two of Jacobs' books...- PLANetizen

'Spiritual guide' for city planners: Influential urban critic Jane Jacobs, who had a special relationship with Vancouver, has died at the age of 89. [link to Robert Fulford article]- CBC (Canada)

An Appreciation: Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006: A visionary author saw how cities work. By Inga Saffron- Philadelphia Inquirer

Jane Jacobs: Leading voice of the city: ...a giant among urban critics and enthusiasts...spent her entire career fighting for one deceptively simple principle: leave the cities alone and let them develop by themselves.- Financial Times (UK)

The foremost urban thinker of her time: Jane Jacobs literally wrote the book on creating and preserving livable cities. Don Butler looks back on her life.- Ottawa Citizen (Canada)

T.O. wore Jacobs as a badge of honour: More than most cities, Toronto owes a huge debt of gratitude to Jane Jacobs...loved this city almost as much as it loved her. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

How to be a great city: What are the forces that shape the urban landscape and culture into something recognizably wonderful and inspiring? -- Witold Rybczynski; Jane Jacobs; Joe Berridge/Urban Strategies; Bousfield; Larry Richards- Toronto Star

A New Gentilly: Architect has big ideas for the neighborhood that include town centers and green space...said residents should insist that a multimillion-dollar citywide planning effort now gearing up furnish a planner for each of 19 neighborhoods... -- Andres Duany/Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.; Congress for the New Urbanism- The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Developer Takes a Financial Deal for Ground Zero: ...reduces Silverstein's overall role on the site and clears the way for construction of the Freedom Tower...focus will now shift to...the troubled memorial project...projected cost of the memorial is now so high that planners may have to pare elements of the project, potentially touching off another round of squabbling.- New York Times

Century-old lesson in responding to disasters: If the 1905 San Francisco] quake brought people together, Katrina left them on their own. By Christopher Hume- Toronto Star

A Few Stories (and Podcasts) from the Source: Radical Craft...the conference that explored the craft in architecture, technology, fashion, science, and more. By Andrew Blum -- Maurice Cox; Constance Adams; Chee Pearlman; etc.- Metropolis Magazine

The Empire State Building at 75: The building is the distinctive image of mythic New York, and totally irresistible. -- Shreve, Lamb and Harmon [multiple artices, images, videos]- New York Times

-- Competition Winner: Lab architecture studio: Riyadh Business Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
-- C.F. Møller Architects: Darwin Centre Phase Two, London, UK

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