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Jane Jacobs

1916 - 2006

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Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers. Jacobs organized grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance, in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jane Jacobs has received more than 2,333,117 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jane Jacobs is the 1,949th most popular writer (down from 1,620th in 2019), the 2,465th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,116th in 2019) and the 218th most popular American Writer.

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  • 56.37

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Systems of survival
Political Science
The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of politics.
1992
Cities and the wealth of nations
1984
The nature of economies
2000
Dark age ahead
2004

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jane Jacobs ranks 1,949 out of 7,302. Before her are Nicholas Sparks, André Brink, Constantine of Preslav, Bernard Palissy, Jón Arason, and Eugenio Barba. After her are Margarete Buber-Neumann, Denis Fonvizin, Thomas Merton, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Eugene Nida, and Albert Memmi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Jane Jacobs ranks 86. Before her are Vladimir Demikhov, José Manuel Moreno, Ramón José Velásquez, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Shirley Jackson, and Pierre Messmer. After her are Luigi Comencini, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Lilian, Princess of Réthy, Ri Jong-ok, Maria Altmann, and Hubert Maga. Among people deceased in 2006, Jane Jacobs ranks 99. Before her are Óscar Míguez, Robert Plutchik, Walerian Borowczyk, Richard Kuklinski, Pierre Clostermann, and Alexander Zinoviev. After her are Alberto Spencer, Rocío Dúrcal, Trevor Berbick, Igor Sergeyev, Ibolya Csák, and Peter Boyle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 2,465 out of 20,380. Before her are Julian Schnabel (1951), Alan Ladd (1913), Chris Wallace (1947), Charles Durning (1923), Debra Winger (1955), and Alvin Plantinga (1932). After her are Richie Sambora (1959), Marie Laveau (1801), Robert Benton (1932), Randolph Scott (1898), Gerard Damiano (1928), and Sundance Kid (1867).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 218. Before her are Shirley Jackson (1916), Nora Ephron (1941), Voltairine de Cleyre (1866), Clark Ashton Smith (1893), Robert James Waller (1939), and Nicholas Sparks (1965). After her are Eugene Nida (1914), Lady Randolph Churchill (1854), Cornell Woolrich (1903), Richard Brautigan (1935), Bob Woodward (1943), and Tom Wolfe (1930).

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