{"id":1530,"date":"2007-02-11T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:48:42","slug":"new-york-creates-the-jane-jacobs-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/11\/new-york-creates-the-jane-jacobs-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"New York creates the Jane Jacobs Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/images\/20060513\/1906OB.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1997, a conference here in Toronto called &#8220;Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter&#8221; gathered hundreds of the world&#8217;s most prominent thinkers and community leaders to exchange ideas and celebrate Jacobs&#8217; work in the areas of cities, economies and values. The event culminated with the announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasthatmatter.com\/people\/jj-prize.html\">Jane Jacobs Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the <em>New York Sun<\/em> and other media outlets are reporting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <span class=\"article_small\" id=\"article\"><a title=\"The Rockefeller Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=The+Rockefeller+Foundation\">The Rockefeller Foundation<\/a> announceed today the creation of a $200,000 award, called the <a title=\"Jane Jacobs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Jane+Jacobs\">Jane Jacobs<\/a> Medal, to recognize individuals who have made a significant contribution to thinking about urban design, specifically in <a title=\"New York City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=New+York+City\">New York City<\/a>. The medal will be given annually to two people: one who has made a lifetime contribution and another who is at the start of a promising career.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, worth noting in the <em>Sun<\/em>&#8216;s story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recipients of the award will be announced in June, and an award ceremony will take place in September, simultaneously with the opening of an exhibit on Jacobs at the <a title=\"Municipal Art Society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Municipal+Art+Society\">Municipal Art Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is both coincidental and appropriate that Jacobs should be honored with an award in her name and an exhibit, just when her longtime nemesis, <a title=\"Robert Moses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Robert+Moses\">Robert Moses<\/a>, is having something of a rehabilitation &#8212; or, at least, attracting a flurry of renewed interest &#8212; with a three-part exhibit devoted to his influence now open around town. Jacobs fought against many of Moses&#8217;s projects and was instrumental in defeating his plan for the Lower <a title=\"Manhattan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Manhattan\">Manhattan<\/a> Expressway. Through the years she bested Moses in public image and the long-term impact of her ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>photo from the Economist\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, a conference here in Toronto called &#8220;Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter&#8221; gathered hundreds of the world&#8217;s most prominent thinkers and community leaders to exchange ideas and celebrate Jacobs&#8217; work in the areas of cities, economies and values. The event culminated with the announcement of the Jane Jacobs Prize. Today, the New York Sun<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/11\/new-york-creates-the-jane-jacobs-medal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;New York creates the Jane Jacobs Medal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[4584,4586,3126,3228,469,564,21,12,502,4587,4585,19,391],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighbourhoods","category-urban-design","tag-economist","tag-lower-manhattan-expressway","tag-media-outlets","tag-municipal-art-society","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-other-cities","tag-planning","tag-robert-moses","tag-rockefeller-foundation","tag-the-new-york-sun","tag-toronto","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York creates the Jane Jacobs Medal - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/11\/new-york-creates-the-jane-jacobs-medal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New York creates the Jane Jacobs Medal - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1997, a conference here in Toronto called &#8220;Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter&#8221; gathered hundreds of the world&#8217;s most prominent thinkers and community leaders to exchange ideas and celebrate Jacobs&#8217; work in the areas of cities, economies and values. 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