Peter Laurence’s Becoming Jane Jacobs opens in 1935. This is when the 19-year-old Jane Butzner, fresh out of high school, infused with a love of poetry and driven by a streak of rebelliousness, left ...
Native Scrantonian Jane Butzner Jacobs didn’t mention her hometown in her seminal 1961 treatise on urban vitality and decline, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” That work, and her role in ...
Part I: An uncredentialed woman, 1916-1954. A generous place to live ; Outlaw ; Ladies' nest of owls, and other milestones in the education of Miss Jane Butzner ; The great bewildering world ; ...
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