#200 Jane Jacobs: Saving the Village

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jane Jacobs is one of the most important urban thinkers of the 20th century. As a community activist, she fought for her own neighborhood and set an example for other embattled districts in New York City. Her legacy is fascinating, often radical and not always positive for cities in 2016. But she is an extraordinary New Yorker, and for our 200th episode, we had to celebrate this remarkable woman on the 100th anniversary of her birth.

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 200. Jane Jacobs saving the village.
0:06.0	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:08.0	Hey!
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0:21.0	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:24.0	And this is Tom Myers.
0:25.0	Tom, happy 200th episode of the Bowry Boys.
0:29.0	I can't believe we're at this moment.
0:31.0	You don't look a day over 100 episodes Greg.
0:33.0	Well it's because I'm basking in the glow of the individual in which we're featuring this afternoon.
0:38.0	An individual that has changed the face of New York City has changed the face of many American cities.
0:44.0	And celebrating the 100 anniversary of her birth.
0:47.0	This would be Jane Jacobs, the journalist, thinker, and...
0:51.0	Go ahead, call her activist.
0:53.0	And activist, sure. Community activist.
0:56.0	And someone who loved New York so much, she was ready to go to bat with the city itself to save her neighborhood.
1:03.0	Which in this case was Greenwich Village.
1:05.0	In fact Greg, I would argue that Jane Jacobs didn't just love New York, but she loved cities.
1:11.0	She was somebody who fought four cities throughout most of her life.
1:16.0	She was an urban street fighter.
1:18.0	Or at least a fighter for urban streets.
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