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Walking Tour: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York: Cities Are for People

9:35 PM EDT on September 4, 2007

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In conjunction with a new exhibition, Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York, eight walking tours will take participants to places associated with Jane Jacobs’ life and work and to communities that illustrate her planning principles — or call them into question. This is the second.

Cities Are for People
Jane Jacobs cycled to her job in midtown at Architectural Forum during the 1950s. See the area as she did, considering her views of 20th century urban planning, from the creation of Rockefeller Center to the Seagram Building, as well as Paley Park, an urban oasis that both challenged and validated her philosophy.

Leader: Matt Postal, architectural historian.

Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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