Jane Jacobs

Reading L.A.: Richard G. Lillard on the growth machine and its discontents

2011-03-24 16:33:09

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Reading L.A.: Introducing a yearlong project

2011-01-24 16:32:56

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'The Death and Life of the Great American School System' by Diane Ravitch

2010-02-28 00:00:00

The Death and Life of the Great American School System How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Diane Ravitch Basic Books: 284 pp., $26.95 Diane Ravitch, probably this nation's most respected historian of education and long one of our most...

Planning the next L.A.

2009-12-02 16:32:37

Theater review: 'The Wake' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

2010-03-29 21:32:56

The road more traveled

2008-11-18 00:00:00

"Autophobia" is one of those concepts that carries a useful double meaning. As Brian Ladd defines it early in this brisk analysis of cars and car culture, it's "an obscure psychiatric diagnosis of 'fear of oneself.' " But, if bent just a little, it can...

Where Modernism hit an Art Deco wall

2007-03-24 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN Institute of Architects recently asked a national sample to judge American buildings, monuments and other structures. Each participant in the survey rated some of the 247 buildings nominated by the institute, and the scores were tallied...

The Life of a City: A new documentary looks to urban planning to solve tomorrow's problems

2012-02-01 09:20:00

If you're optimistic about our chances of tackling the big challenges facing humanity in the 21st century — poverty, overpopulation, the environment, the fair allocation of political power — then you're likely to feel good about the state of...

Birthday Wishes

2010-06-09 12:36:39

You say it's your birthday? Let us tell our viewers! Send your birthday wishes at least two weeks in advance to the addresses below: email:� birthdays@kwch.com Mail: Birthday Wishes 2815 E. 37th N. Wichita, KS, 67219 Include a self-addressed...

Buildings the case

2008-08-23 00:00:00

Great architects are the enemies of history. They aspire to erase the visible past and to superimpose their own vision of the future. Ever since Baron Haussmann declared war on the back alleys of Paris in the mid-19th Century, replacing them with wide...

'Sketches of Frank Gehry'

2006-05-19 00:00:00

Architecture is the slowest of the arts, by far: It often takes a full decade for a building to go from sketch to ribbon-cutting, a journey that can be pushed off course by zoning officials, fussy clients and the laws of gravity. But in "Sketches of Frank...

You Just Need To Get Started': A Conversation With Ken Greenberg

2002-03-03 00:00:00

Ken Greenberg is a city planner from Toronto who spearheaded a 1998 master plan for downtown Hartford that came to be known as the Greenberg Plan. Now a consultant to the Capital City Economic Development Authority, he spoke with The Courant's editorial...

Then: Charismatic, Springfield-born conceptual artist/performance artist/visual artist best known for his use of discarded items (liquor bottles, chicken bones) and borrowing from outsider art to create racially-charged works.

2012-02-08 13:43:25

Then: Charismatic, Springfield-born conceptual artist/performance artist/visual artist best known for his use of discarded items (liquor bottles, chicken bones) and borrowing from outsider art to create racially-charged works.

2012-02-08 13:43:25

Author Jane Jacobs, April 25 Jane Jacobs, an author and community activist of singular influence whose classic "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" transformed ideas about urban planning, died on April 25. Jacobs, a longtime resident of Toronto, was 89.

2006-04-26 07:40:06