Journalist Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

Living place: Scranton

Birthday: 4-5-1916

Population of US 1916: 101,961,000

Global rank: #20220

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Who is Journalist Jane Jacobs?
A Canadian-American journalist and author, she is best known for The Death and Life of America's Great Cities, a groundbreaking work that critiques urban renewal. She is often considered one of the main influences behind the New Urbanist movement.
She is both an urban thematic author and a political activist.

Young / Before famous

After graduating from high school in Pennsylvania, she worked as an unpaid assistant editor for the Scranton Tribune. When she first moved to New York City, she worked as a secretary and a freelance writer before becoming a reporter for the publication of the United States Department of State, Amerika.

Family life info

She married Robert Hyde Jacobs in 1944. An opponent of the Vietnam War, she moved to Canada in the late 1960s and lived in Toronto for the rest of her life.

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Joseph Gordon shares his alma mater, Columbia University.

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When was Journalist Jane Jacobs born?
Jane Jacobs was born in 4-5-1916, death year is , at the age of 108.
Where is Journalist Jane Jacobs's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jane Jacobs was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania- United States. Là Journalist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Jane Jacobs's global rank is 20220 and whose rank is 64 in list of famous Journalist. Population of US in 1916 is about 101,961,000 persons.
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Events in 1916 and 4-5

Events in US in the birth year of Jane Jacobs

  • Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
  • Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
  • U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
  • Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Birthday Jane Jacobs (4-5) in history

  • Day 4-5 year 1626: Dutch Governor Peter Minuit landed in Manhattan, which he later bought for $24 in cloth and brass buttons.
  • Day 4-5 year 1886: The Haymarket Square riot broke out as a result of a labor demonstration.
  • Day 4-5 year 1932: Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed for tax evasion.
  • Day 4-5 year 1959: The first Grammy Awards were held.
  • Day 4-5 year 1961: Civil rights activists, called "freedom riders," left Washington, DC for New Orleans.
  • Day 4-5 year 1970: Four Kent State University students were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.
  • Day 4-5 year 1998: The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for his series of bombings that killed three and injured 23.
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