Jane M. Jacobs
Australian geographer
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Jane M. Jacobs's Degrees
- Masters Geography University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jane Margaret Jacobs is an Australian academic, currently serving as Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS College and formerly as Professor of Cultural Geography, in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously at the University of Melbourne. Jacobs' work has focused on Postcolonialism; indigenous rights and identity; race and racism; cultural politics of urban space; high-rise housing and modernity; and the politics of cultural heritage. Jacobs has published several books, many book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed international scholarly journals. In 2016, she was elected a fellow of the British Academy.
Jane M. Jacobs's Published Works
Published Works
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1962) (12720)
- The Economy of Cities (1969) (4780)
- Cities and the wealth of nations (1984) (811)
- Living Room: Rematerialising Home (2008) (799)
- Cities and the Wealth of Nations : Principles of Economic Life (1985) (633)
- Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998) (347)
- A geography of big things (2006) (272)
- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1992) (258)
- Edge of empire (1996) (244)
- The Nature of Economies (2000) (231)
- Urban geographies I (2012) (209)
- Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City (1999) (186)
- Cities of difference (1998) (178)
- 'A Tall Storey ... but, a Fact Just the Same': The Red Road High-rise as a Black Box (2007) (120)
- City Resilience Framework (2014) (112)
- 'On The Border Of The Unsayable': The Apology in Postcolonizing Australia (2000) (87)
- The City Unbound: Qualitative Approaches to the City (1993) (80)
- Practising architectures (2011) (76)
- Defensible space on the move: Revisiting the urban geography of Alice Coleman (2013) (70)
- Physical, Social, and Personal Determinants of the Perception of Crowding (1973) (70)
- Commentary—Comparing Comparative Urbanisms (2012) (68)
- Too little, too much: Cultural feminist geographies (2003) (67)
- Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture (2014) (60)
- Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (2010) (58)
- Book Review: Belonging: Australians, place and Aboriginal ownership (2003) (57)
- The Kind of Problem a City Is (2014) (49)
- Strategies for Helping Cities (1969) (44)
- Planetary postcolonialism: Planetary postcolonialism (2014) (44)
- Cultures of the past and urban transformation: the Spitalfields Market redevelopment in East London (1992) (44)
- Earth Honouring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges' (1994) (41)
- From Urban Aborigines to Aboriginality and the City: One Path Through the History of Australian Cultural Geography (1997) (38)
- Tourism and the protection of aboriginal cultural sites (1994) (36)
- Kooramindanjie: Place and the Postcolonial (1995) (35)
- The Modern Touch: Interior Design and Modernisation in Post-Independence Singapore (2008) (35)
- Ecologies of dwelling: Maintaining high-rise housing in Singapore (2012) (32)
- The Question of Separatism: Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty (1980) (30)
- Negotiating the Heart; Heritage, Development and Identity in Postimperial London (1994) (30)
- Aestheticization and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Cities (1998) (29)
- Geographies of Publicity and Privacy: Residential Activism in Sydney in the 1970s (1999) (27)
- Too many houses for a home: Narrating the house in the Chinese diaspora (2006) (26)
- “The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety” (2015) (25)
- Doing Building Work (2012) (23)
- Postcolonialism and the politics of race (1996) (23)
- 'Shake 'im this country': the mapping of the Aboriginal sacred in Australia (1993) (22)
- Windows: Re-viewing Red Road (2008) (22)
- States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals (2011) (20)
- Placebound: Australian Feminist Geographies (2000) (19)
- Belonging and non-belonging: the apology in a reconciling nation (2002) (18)
- The Uses of Sidewalks (1995) (18)
- Tourists and the National Estate. Procedures to protect Australia's heritage. (1987) (18)
- Uncanny Australia (1995) (17)
- Politics and the Cultural Landscape: The Case of Aboriginal Land Rights (1988) (16)
- Qualitative Urban Analysis: An International Perspective (2008) (14)
- Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions: Ethnographic and Historical Studies (1988) (14)
- Editorial: Home rules (2003) (14)
- "Women talking up big": Aboriginal women as cultural custodians (1989) (13)
- The Postcolonial Ghost Story (2013) (13)
- Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies (1994) (13)
- Tradition is (not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization (2004) (13)
- The battle of Bank Junction: The contested iconography of capital (1994) (12)
- Tourists and the national estate (1987) (11)
- A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece (1995) (10)
- Rescripting Cities with Difference (2008) (10)
- Compact City Policy: How Europe Rediscovered its History and Met Resistance (2002) (10)
- 'That Dangerous Fantasy of Authenticity': a Review of the J. C. Slaughter Falls Community Arts Project, Brisbane (1995) (9)
- Aboriginal art: Australia's neglected inheritance (1987) (9)
- The making of marginalisation: highrise living and social polarisation (1996) (9)
- The Consequences of Ruins: Contemplations on Social Memory and Loss of Place in Australia (1997) (9)
- Materialising Vision: Performing a High-rise View (2016) (9)
- Identifying high-risk visitors at Aboriginal art sites (1986) (9)
- Singapore'S Void Decks (2014) (7)
- Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History (1999) (7)
- Selected writings on architecture, preservation, and the built environment (2006) (7)
- Inventing Places: Studies in Cultural Geography (1992) (6)
- ' The Need for Aged Buildings ' : Neighbourhood Historical (2013) (6)
- Aboriginal land rights in Port Augusta (1983) (6)
- Urban Architecture (2020) (5)
- Commentary: Property and propriety: (re)making the space of indigeneity in Australian cities (2012) (5)
- Urban custodians and hospitable citizens: citizenship and social actions at two liberal arts universities in Hong Kong and Shanghai (2020) (4)
- “Orthodox Planning and The North End” from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) (2014) (4)
- The Uses of City Neighborhoods (2012) (4)
- The death and life of a reluctant urban icon (2007) (4)
- Touching pasts. Symposium on Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island (2001) (3)
- Re-Making Public Space Through And In Asia (2014) (3)
- The politics of the past : redevelopment in London (1990) (3)
- The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers (2007) (3)
- Debating the City (2001) (3)
- Challenges for the Social Sciences and Australia, Volume 1 (1998) (3)
- Chapter 11 Epilogue: re-qualifying the city (2008) (3)
- Doing building work: The un-making of Red Road (2008) (2)
- Review of New words, new worlds: reconceptualising social and cultural geography - conference proceedings by Chris Philo (1994) (2)
- Concerns Coupled with Pedestrianization and Implementation Methods (2)
- “Author’s Introduction” and “The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact” (2013) (2)
- Talking out of place: authorising the Aboriginal sacred in Australia (1995) (2)
- Eastern Trading Diasporas, Dwelling and Place (2002) (2)
- Urban Dreamings the Aboriginal Sacred in the City (2002) (2)
- Re-qualifying the city (2008) (2)
- Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives (2002) (2)
- ‘Talking out of place’: Authorizing the Aboriginal sacred in postcolonial Australia (2006) (2)
- The Jacobs ́ Urban Lineage Revisited Analytical rudiments for the further development of the phenomenological approach to the study of the perception of people in urban space implicit in Jane Jacobs ́ work (2013) (1)
- On the difference between social justice and christian charity (2007) (1)
- The metaphysics of morals in Thomas Aquinas: The transcendentals as the foundation for natural law ethics (2002) (1)
- Aquinas and Modern Science: A New Synthesis of Faith and Reason. By Gerard M. Verschuuren (2017) (1)
- The Inherent Limitations on Human Freedom (2010) (1)
- Beauty as an Excess of Intelligibity (2016) (1)
- The Precepts of the Decalogue and the Problem of Self-Evidence (2007) (1)
- Negotiating the heart: place and identity in the post-imperial city (1999) (1)
- White Papers / Black Marks: Architecture, Race and Culture (2000) (1)
- Putting Toronto’s Best Self Forward (1991) (1)
- Urban Planning: Uncommon Sense: Remembering Jane Jacobs, the 20th century's most influential city critic (2016) (1)
- Thinking about Cities (1970) (1)
- Aboriginal History (Special Issue: Aboriginal History Monograph 3: Country: Aboriginal Boundaries and Land Ownership in Australia) (1995) (1)
- The Highrise Project website (2008) (1)
- Diversity Itself: Essays in Australian Arts and Culture (1986) (1)
- The postcolonial uncanny: on reconciliation, (dis)possesion and ghost stories (1998) (1)
- Aboriginal rock art: "threatened species" of the visual arts in Australia (1986) (1)
- Conclusion from 'Edge of Empire' (2000) (0)
- Aboriginal frontiers and boundaries in Australia [Book Review] (1994) (0)
- The Spaces of Postmodernity: Readings in Human Geography. Reprint on request, extract from Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism in the City (2002) (0)
- The Relevance of Aristotle’s Notion of Equity for the Contemporary Abortion Debate (2004) (0)
- The End of Tradition (2004) (0)
- Down the Vertical Refuse Chutes in Singapore High-rise Living (2022) (0)
- SYSTEMS / LAYERS : URBAN EXPERIENCE IN THE NETWORK AGE (2011) (0)
- Book reviews : Duncan, J. and Ley, D., editors, 1993: Place/ culture/representation. London: Routledge. ix + 341 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 09450 X; 0 415 09451 8 (1995) (0)
- 6.3 'EARTH HONORING: WESTERN DESIRES AND INDIGENIOUS KNOWLEDGES' (2003) (0)
- Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2016) (0)
- Radar Urbanity: Review of Duxton Plain Housing Competition (2002) (0)
- Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective. By Alice Ramos (2013) (0)
- Red Road in a Box (2011) (0)
- Tuma The Significance of Space A Comment on the Symposium by Joost van Loon (2017) (0)
- Editorial (1996) (0)
- The seat of wisdom (2020) (0)
- Conclusion, from Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City (2000) (0)
- Fallow: A Comparative Reflection (2019) (0)
- Spinoza/space/speed/sublime: Problems of philosophy and politics in the post-colonial fiction of Gerald Murnane (2013) (0)
- The Process of Cultural Transformation: The MHIRT Experience at FIU (2008) (0)
- Ayleen Robainas Barcia, Cuba.PDF (2001) (0)
- Name That Place (2007) (0)
- SAFETY, CRIME, VULNERABILITY AND DESIGN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (2017) (0)
- Memories and Dreams (1997) (0)
- The City: Some Myths About Diversity (2017) (0)
- On the Philosophy of the City (2019) (0)
- Pride of Place (1995) (0)
- Australian Cultural Geographies (1999) (0)
- Abstracts (2007) (0)
- Cities A to Z (2000) (0)
- Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. By Thomas M. Osborne Jr. (2015) (0)
- The Metaphysical Nature of Personhood and the Need for Analogy (2018) (0)
- How to Prove There is a God: Mortimer J. Adler’s Writings and Thoughts about God, ed. Ken Dzugan (2012) (0)
- Review of Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction by L. Gandhi (1999) (0)
- The Practice of Religion in Post-Secular Society (2014) (0)
- The Ontological Status of Artifacts (2019) (0)
- Can Animals Be Moral? By Mark Rowlands; and Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism. By Gary Steiner (2013) (0)
- From Human Dignity to Natural Law: An Introduction. By Richard Berquist. Foreword by Steven J. Jensen (2021) (0)
- The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Sketch. By Stephen L. Brock (2016) (0)
- The Person as an Object of Science in Aquinas (2012) (0)
- Aboriginality and architecture (2000) (0)
- Preface (2016) (0)
- Putting Toronto's Best Self Forward [Housing on Toronto's Main Streets] (1991) (0)
- Title Residual Meaning : Assembling Thick Urbanism Permalink (2011) (0)
- The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact (1961) (2014) (0)
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