Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary by Alice Alexiou

Author:Alice Alexiou
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: City Planning & Urban Development, Public Policy, Social Science, Political Science
ISBN: 9780813537924
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2006-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

But Jacobs and Abrams were wrong to think that nothing was changing. Scientific revolutions happen, Kuhn argued, in response to a crisis. Then follows the “crisis-state”—something that “demands the competence of the psychologist even more than that of the historian” to explain adequately.7 The eloquence of Jane Jacobs, in combination with her nervy actions, affected our souls so viscer-ally that decision makers could not for long ignore the passions she had stirred up. Within a year of the publication of Death and Life, architects were already submitting designs for low-rise housing projects for the first time since the Depression.8 Six years later in 1968 Congress banned altogether the construction of any more high-rise public housing. That the Le Corbusier–inspired housing project was unequivocally dead was spectacularly demonstrated in 1972, when the St. Louis Housing Authority dynamited three of the Pruitt-Igoe project buildings, and razed the rest the following year. The image of this project being blown up got wide play in the media, and became the icon of a failed national policy that was formally ended two years later in 1974 when Congress passed the new housing law that included the Section 8 provision. This provision, along with subsidizing the rents of needy people to enable them to live in private housing, provided for incentives for private developers to build low-income housing.

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