Center for the Living City
In 2005, in collaboration with Jane Jacobs, a small group of accomplished urbanists founded The Center for the Living City to build on Ms. Jacobs’ work. The Center’s purpose is to enhance the understanding of the complexity of contemporary urban life and through it, promote increased civic engagement who care deeply for their communities.
The Center’s programming includes publishing What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs and sponsoring Jane’s Walks, self-organized walking tours around the country on the week-end of Jacobs’ birthday. The Center for the Living City also sponsors symposia, exhibitions, fellowships, workshops and other community events.
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
What We See is a collection of original essays by leading thinkers that honors the late Jane Jacobs. Included are fresh and timely ideas to springboard public dialog, community activism and celebration of all that is local. What We See was published in May of 2010 in coordination with our annual Jane’s Walks and was named to the Top 10 Urban Planning Books of the Year for 2011 by Planetizen.
This project was supported in part through the generosity of The Rockefeller Foundation, Furthermore Foundation, The Newburgh Institute, Martha Jean Shuttleworth, and Gregory O’Connell.
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Center for the Living City Board Members:
Roberta Brandes GratzAuthor of Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs (Nation Books, 2010), lecturer, award-winning journalist, civic activist, and former member of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. Stephen GoldsmithDirector, Center for the Living City, artist, activist, founder of Artspace in Salt Lake City, former Director of Planning for Salt Lake City, and Assistant Professor College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah. Ron ShiffmanFormer director of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development. Margaret ZeidlerDeveloper and activist in Toronto, Canada. Mary NewsomAssociate director, Urban and Regional Affairs, University of North Carolina. Aaron NaparstekFounder, Streetsblog. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D.Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences; Director of Organization, University of Orange, Orange, NJ. Norman MintzOne of the Main Street Movement’s earliest pioneers and is currently Senior Director, Main Streets and Downtowns for Project For Public Spaces. Sanford Ikeda, Ph.DAssociate Professor of Economics, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College State University of New York |
For more information about the Center for the Living City, please visit: www.centerforthelivingcity.org.
