Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of more than 200 on the bridge over the Rock River. (AP) - Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. At a public hearing on the proposed expressway in 1968, Jacobs was arrested and later charged with “second-degree riot, inciting to riot and criminal mischief,” according to the New York Times.DIXON, Ill. A similar highway was the subject of what remains perhaps her most famous battle: The Lower Manhattan Expressway, proposed by city planner Robert Moses, which would have been a 10-lane road cutting across what is now SoHo and Little Italy. At the time city planning aimed to make cities orderly, with tall buildings and open space, and had no qualms about demolishing large swaths of neighborhoods to make their ideas reality, as with New York City’s Cross Bronx Expressway. Jacobs was not just a writer who had big ideas, she was also the champion of those ideas in the real world. MORE: Read TME’s 1962 Cover Story on the American Urban Renaissance “This is not the rebuilding of cities,” she wrote.
Jacobs argued that urban renewal-tearing down old neighborhoods to build housing developments in their place-was not the answer to the problem of urban slums. The book was highly influential, offering a radically different view from what city planners of the time put forward. This is the contentious charge of Critic Jane Jacobs in a new, passionately argued and well-documented book ( The Death and Life of Great American Cities), which has planners all shook up.
Attached to the outmoded ideals of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City and Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, they are creating a future wilderness of standardized, monotonous never-never lands. planners and redevelopers, in trying to save U.S.
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