QUIZ: Which Side Of Jane Jacobs Are You?
Here at the National Trust, we often celebrate Jane Jacobs for her inspiring preservation advocacy. She fearlessly organized against destructive highway projects in New York—taking on the all-powerful Robert Moses to preserve Washington Square Park—and Toronto, all the while arguing for the economic benefits of older buildings.
But Jacobs was also a remarkably rounded writer and thinker. She first built her reputation as a journalist, freelancing for the New York Herald Tribune and other local publications. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, is now recognized as a seminal work for the type of community-based urban planning that’s taught today. And she was a prolific writer on regional economics later in her career.
Jacobs was a heavyweight in many different fields. Take our quiz to find out which side of her you most embody!
