[Oe List ...] FW: More on Jane Jacobs. . .

[John Cock]

Fron son John:

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From: Cock, John [mailto:jc at thelawrencegroup.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:39 AM
To: jpc2025 at triad.rr.com
Subject: More on Jane Jacobs. . .



>From the Toronto Star. . .

 

The central premise of her book, The Nature of Economies, is that economics
is a web of connected forces subject to the same laws as all other living
things in nature.

 

At the time in March, 2000, she told The Star's Judy Stoffman: "This will be
a radical idea to those who think of human beings as being outside nature.
Human beings are neither adversaries of or the inevitable masters of nature.
They live by the same processes as all nature."

 

Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Jacobs continued to live in her
three-storey brick house on Albany Ave., a tree-lined street in the Annex
neighbourhood she helped preserve.

 

She wrote in an upstairs office on a typewriter, refusing to use a computer.
A son, Jim, an inventor, lived close by and another son, Ned, worked for the
Vancouver Parks Board and is a musician, and a daughter Burgin, is an artist
and lives in New Denver.

B.C.

 

The shelves of her study were not filled with books about economics or
cities, but with writings on chaos theory and the sciences, subjects which
stimulated her own thinking.

 

Shortly after writing The Nature of Economies, she was quoted as saying: "I
think I'm living in a marvellous age when great change is occurring. We now
see that there is no straight-line cause and effect; things are connected by
webs.

 

"This understanding comes from advances in the life-sciences, and it opens
up the possibility of understanding all kinds of things we haven't
understood before. I think it's very exciting."

 

As for her own life, she said the following: "Really, I've had a very easy
life.

 

"By easy I don't mean just lying around, but I haven't been put upon,
really. And it's been luck mostly.

Being brought up in a time when women weren't put down, that's luck. Being
in a family where I wasn't put down, that's luck. Finding the right man to
marry, that's the best luck! Having nice children, healthy children, that's
luck.

 

"All these lucky things."

 

 

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