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Episode 03: Sanford Ikeda on Jane Jacobs

September 21, 2016 By Nolan Gray

Jane Jacobs

(Phil Stanziola/New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)

 

My guest this week is Sanford Ikeda, a professor of economics at SUNY Purchase and a visiting scholar at New York University. He has written extensively on urban economics, policy, and planning.

Professor Ikeda introduced me to urban economics and urban planning when he gave a presentation on Jane Jacobs at a FEE summer seminar that I attended back in 2012.

Here are a few of the topics we discussed in the episode:

  • If you haven’t already, I highly suggest reading Jane Jacobs. The natural place to start is The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Her other books, including The Economy of Cities and Systems of Survival, explore topics ranging from economics to political philosophy.
  • Professor Ikeda has written extensively on Jane Jacobs. You can read a nice overview here. If you would like to read more, click here for a paper he wrote on F.A. Hayek, Jane Jacobs, and the importance of local knowledge in cities. He is also a regular contributor to Freeman and Market Urbanism.
  • We also discussed William H. Whyte’s famous documentary on public space, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. It’s well worth checking out.

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Filed Under: history, Jane Jacobs, market urbanism podcast, Places & Spaces, planning Tagged With: Jane Jacobs, New York City, robert moses, sanford ikeda, the death and life of great american cities, william h. whyte

About Nolan Gray

Nolan Gray a regular contributor to Market Urbanism. He is also a practicing city planner, having earned a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University. His work regularly appears on Citylab and Strong Towns. He lives in New York City and is originally from Lexington, Kentucky.

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