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Walking Tour: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York: Greenpoint: Transforming a Working Class Haven

10:01 AM EDT on September 15, 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.

Greenpoint: Transforming a Working Class Haven
Near the end of her life, Jane Jacobs was outspoken against the rezoning of Greenpoint’s waterfront. Is this working-class neighborhood a victim of its own success?

Leader: Francis Morrone, 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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