Eyes On the Street: the Life of Jane Jacobs
“3.“First my knees trembled”: Alexander and Weadick, p. 16.She began with East Harlem: The text of Jane’s talk, from which the quotes over the next few pages are drawn, can be found in Architectural Forum (June 1956), as “The Missing Link in City Redevelopment”; in Matter, pp. 39–40; excerpted also in Progressive Architecture (August 1956): 102–03; and Krieger and Saunders, pp. 9–11.Stuyvesant Town: See Projects, part II; Jane’s references to it in her Harvard lecture and later in D&L; interview..., Carol Bier.from their perch: Projects, p. 73.“tracery of iron”: Projects, p. 85.“a living neighborhood”: Projects, p. 95.“posperous belt of stores”: Matter, p. 39.“a big hit”: Kunstler, II, p. 13.“the foggy atmosphere”: Lewis Mumford, The Urban Prospect, p. 185.“passionate plea”: Fumihiko Maki, “Fragmentation and Friction as Urban Threats: The Post-1956 City,” in Krieger and Saunders, p. 88.“wonderful”: Victor Gruen to Douglas Haskell, April 16, 1956, HaskellPap.“stewing around in me”: Jane Jacobs to Catherine Bauer, April 29, 1958, in LaurenceDiss, p.MoreLess
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