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Barnet, Andrea Corrigan, Dawn. Flint, Anthony Healy, Thomas Kanigel, Robert Pitts, RebeccaPitts, Rebecca
Summary: "Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized-about cities, about people, about making a better world-remain hugely relevant today. Now, in Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People, we have the first biography for young people of the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker. Debut author Rebecca Pitts draws on archives and Jacobs's own writings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 JACKanigel, Robert
Summary: Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing skills at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, JANE KANFlint, Anthony
Summary: The epic rivalry of activist, writer, and mother of three Jane Jacobs, and the father of many of New York's most monumental development projects Robert Moses, played out amid the struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. In this book, acclaimed reporter and urban planning policy expert Anthony Flint recounts this thrilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACOBS, JANE FlintCorrigan, Dawn.
Summary: Gail LaRue returned to her hometown of Gulf Breeze, Florida, after college with an urban planning degree and dreams of planning utopian communities. Instead, as the junior member of the Community Development team, she finds herself battling residents about their weedy yards. But when a prominent local environmentalist is kidnapped by a zealot, Gail and her friend Emily find themselves digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORBarnet, Andrea
Summary: This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women showed what one person speaking truth to power can do. With a keen eye for historical detail, Andrea Barnet traces the arc of each woman's career and explores how their work collectively changed the course of history. Consummate outsiders, each prevailed against powerful and mostly male...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom BarnetHealy, Thomas
Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021