Essay On Jane Jacobs

Jane Addams, a pioneering social worker, helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America’s attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day, her accomplishments affected the philosophical, sociological, and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her societal contributions, culminating with the winning of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.

Jacob’s (1993) introduction defines the “attack” mode that is needed to promote new urban planning projects, which will be necessary to create dynamic and sustainable urban city planning in the 20th century. The underlying problem of capitalistic motives for urban planning often neglects to create hospitable and sustainable building projects, which benefit the greater good of the community: “price tags are fastened onto the population” (Jacobs 8). This is why the concept of mutual and collection “support” of dynamic and balanced urban development better serves the community without the commoditization of human life associated with urban real estate projects. In Chapter Two: The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety is focused on the vital role the sidewalks

An American pragmatist and feminist, Hull-House founder Jane Addams (1860-1935) came of age in time of increasing tensions and division between segments of the American society, a division that was reflected in debates about educational reform. In the midst of this diversity, Addams saw the profoundly interdependent nature of all social and political interaction, and she aligned her efforts to support, emphasize and increase this interdependence. Education was one of the ways she relied on to overcome class disparity, as well as to increase interaction between classes. Her theories about the interdependent nature of living in a democracy provided a backdrop for her educational theory. Education, she thought, needed to produce people who

The late 1800s was a time when many immigrants were coming to America, social classes were being distinguished, and a great deal of prejudice was sweeping over the United States. The upper and middle classes had extreme advantages over the lower class, which consisted of a large number of immigrants. These lower class individuals were looked down upon by the prestigious upper class, who were brought up with the best of everything for their time period. Despite her family’s honorable place in society, one woman rose above the gap between the classes in order to help individuals, who were less fortunate than she. Her name was Jane Addams and this paper will focus on her life-long contributions to help the poor.

In my small town where I grew up, there was a man, Mr. Jacobs, who lived not too far down the street. Everyone knew him because he always made himself obvious. He was a rich man, not common for my town, and he made sure everyone knew how wealthy he was. He dressed in designer clothes found only in stores nearly one hundred miles away, drove the fastest, cleanest car within several neighboring towns, and lived in the largest, most well-kept house in the county. Mr. Jacobs seemed content with his life, for the most part.

A great number of Americans living today reside in areas where homes, businesses, and institutions are spread sparsely. These areas are commonly referred to as either urban or suburban sprawl. Sprawl is generally designed for the movement of cars and not the movement of pedestrians; most people simply will not, and often cannot, assume the role of pedestrian while navigating through sprawl. People are isolated from each other by the glass walls of cars and the metal gates of enclosed subdivisions. American culture glorifies the suburban lifestyle, but the drawbacks of this lifestyle affect not only those living within suburban sprawl itself, but also those living in the urban areas left behind as people mass-migrated to these sparsely concentrated areas. Despite the common perception that suburban, sprawling, and sparsely-concentrated urban life is overall better quality than urban life, the perpetual growth of urban and suburban sprawl in the United States has had negative environmental, physiological, and sociological effects on the land and population of the United States. Over the next twenty-five to fifty years, new suburban development and redevelopment should be based in design that is less sparsely-built, less car-dependent, less segregated by socioeconomic status, and less segregated by land use;

South Philadelphia is an urban community with a plethora of diverse populations within one geographic location. According to The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, (2015) South Philadelphia extends from “South Street to the I-76 expressway and from the Delaware to the Schuylkill Rivers”. South Philadelphia includes the zip codes of 19145, 19146, 19147, and 19148, but for this analysis I will focus solely on 19145. Within, the community of South Philadelphia an array of smaller communities exists, where residents share similar characteristics such as culture, beliefs, racial identity or interests. Communities where individuals share more than just their geographic location are non geographical communities and therefore South Philadelphia is a community based on both geographic vicinity and a community based on the common ideas, interest and a since of belonging residents share.

Obama believes that students should be able to use whatever restroom they feel comfortable using. He wants to make sure that every student is treated with dignity.

Riding public transit along the Kipling 45 bus route and making observations made for an interesting group assignment. It became apparent that the route took riders through multiple different areas. When beginning the route the first distinct area that the bus passed through was a suburban residential area. This suburban area has beautiful curb

The person that I have chosen to research for the environmental thinkers assignment is Jane Jacobs. Jane Jacobs was born on May 4th, 1916 in a coal-mining town in Scranton, Pennsylvania and she past away on April 25, 2006 in Toronto Canada. Jane Jacobs was an urban author and activist and was very well known on her influence on urban studies (Spaces, 2015). Jacobs had no professional training as an urban planner but she released a book called The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961. One environmental concern that Jane Jacobs had was to help stop any expansion on roads and expressways in America and to help local residents have an input on how their neighbourhoods should develop and for them to become aware of places such as where they plan to work, play and live in.

Modernists had to find ways to confront and combat the expressway world. One of the ways this could be done is for modernists to come up with different ways to live a modern life. This chapter focuses on how the expressway world affected the streets of New York in the 1960’s. Jane Jacob’s book The Death and Life in Great American Cities, has played a crucial role in “changing the whole orientation of city and community planning” (314). By describing her everyday life, Jacobs demonstrates that the streets “was experienced as the medium in which the totality of modern material and spiritual forces could meet, clash, interfuse and work out their ultimate meanings and fates” (316). She refers to the remains of the city of the Haussmann age as the old city. Jacobs advices that we should keep the remains of the Haussmann age cities in order to “maintain the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city” (317). She points out that the urban renewal process aided in the destruction of the environment (streets and sidewalks) which modern values can be appreciated. In other words, we must preserve the old city life for the sake of modernism. Berman advices that the people of the city whom have become subjects of modernization, to become comfortable and take control of the modern world. In the 1960s the people of the city were fighting for their homes.

In The beginning of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte introduces Jane as an orphan girl who is residing at Gateshead with Mrs. Reed and her children. Bronte walks us through the episodes of Jane’s life as she moves to Lowood, Thronfield, Moor House, and finally to Ferndean. Throughout these stages, Bronte will show how charity was depicted through the interactions that Jane had. Through these perspectives we will see that the results of how charity was regarded, based on the nineteenth century concepts and views that Bronte discusses, point out the significance of charity in Jane Eyre.

There are available resources and organizations located across the North Philadelphia area. My group members and I focused on the surrounding areas of 22nd and Lehigh. At that intersection there lies Dobbins High School and behind it, a park called x. There a neighborhood shopping center and there are many corner stores. Commuters are able to use SEPTA, Philadelphia’s transportation system. There are buses and subway train stations that are walking distance from this intersection. There are also abandoned houses and factories in blocks radius. We figured that once we took the opportunity to walk through and analyze the community that it would reveal many more resources available.

When reading this article, the use of sidewalks by Jane Jacobs it really makes me wonder what people think sidewalks are for. If you think about the use of sidewalks without them people wouldn't be able to enjoy the fine things in life everything is in its place for a reason and some may say sidewalks are for walking, or they don't sere a purpose. In the article it states that “Streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks – the pedestrian parts of the streets – serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians.” This means that sidewalks complete a city and makes it safe or unsafe to walk on or travel through. The author does explain this in first person and she does have a strong opinion about sidewalks and she says that circulation is the main purpose of sidewalks, it's a way for people to transport to different places on foot.

Generally speaking, using Atwood’s three selected novels, the present study has investigated an inner human evolution, a movement which involves an episode of variations from trauma, through suffering and pain, to the knowledge and understanding. Therefore, it can be suggested that the female psychoanalytical development makes the said novels receptive to the feminist-psychological reading. In other words, Atwood’s selected novels have been here analyzed in light of the feminist and psychoanalytic, especially the Freudian, insights. The feminist-psychological insight indeed identifies a recurrent theme in Atwood’s works, which also subsumes different political, moral, and psychoanalytical attitudes.There is a circle to show the close relationship between childhood,