As per our current Database, Jane Jacobs has been died on Apr 25, 2006 (age 89).
When Jane Jacobs die, Jane Jacobs was 89 years old.
| Popular As | Jane Jacobs |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Age | 89 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 4, 1916 (Scranton, PA) |
| Birthday | May 4 |
| Town/City | Scranton, PA |
| Nationality | PA |
Jane Jacobs’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Jane Jacobs was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
An American-Canadian Journalist and author, she is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a groundbreaking work that criticized urban renewal. She is often regarded as one of the main influences behind the New Urbanist movement.
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 stenographer and a freelance Writer before becoming a reporter for the U.S. State Department's publication, Amerika.
She was both an urban-themed author and a political Activist.
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 remainder of her life.
Joseph Gordon shares her alma mater, Columbia University.
