Well, today i will talk about an expert that i admire this person was an activist and a theorist of urbanism her is Jane Butzner Jacobs, she was born in Pensilvania the 4th of may of 1916 and she died in 25th of April of 2006, she never studied something related with urbanism, but her husband Robert Jacobs was an architect, and he introduced Jane to the camp of urbanism. I'm using this opportunity to recommend to all the people interested in the city and it's people, to read the book "The death and life of great American cities" written by Jane Jacobs.
How i said before, Jane Jacobs was an activist and her ideas were to protect the neighborhoods and districts from the modern urbanism focused on the creations of highways and streets only used for cars. Although her ideas where from a long time ago (40's - 60's) they are still current thanks to her power of understanding the dynamics of the cities, that trancended the time. One of her most remembered battle was with Robert Moses, he was an urbanist of modernism and he impulsated the higways that crossed the neighborhoods. When Moses wanted to put an autopist in Manhattan, Jane Jacobs empowered the neighbors and the highway wasn't built, and this made an inflection point that served to question the way to carry out the creation of cities.
I like the idea that the creation of the highways comes from a woman!!!
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