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Cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs · 1961
Mentioned 2 times across 2 podcasts · 2021–2026
Mention timeline2 mentions
20212026
Where it's mentioned
Choosing Metaphors and Changing Minds, with Gardner Campbell
Teaching in Higher Ed · Oct 2026
“Her big first book was Death and Life of Great Americans. Think that's close”
Mary Portas - How To Stop Living A Life That Isn't True To You
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Jun 2021
“She talked about those little things where you bump into someone on the street and you say, Morning, or you're getting a newspaper and you say, Can your daughter babysit tonight? She said, These little things are trivial, but the sum isn't trivial at all. It is a social infrastructure, a web of security that makes us human. The office is the same. The office is the same. Now, I started in my office with saying, You got a baby, you can bring it in. Bring dogs in. The in this was like Te”