Jane's Walk - James Bay 2025

Updated March 14, 2025
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Better buses, better cities how to plan, run, and win the fight for effective transit
Higashide, Steven 
Paper Book
"Better Buses, Better Cities is likely the best book ever written on improving bus service in the United States." -- Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron "The ultimate roadmap for how to make the bus great again in your city." -- Spacing "The...
Dark age ahead
Jacobs, Jane
Paper Book
A dark age is a culture’s dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this powerful and provocative book, renowned author Jane Jacobs argues convincingly that we face the coming of our own dark age. Throughout history,...
The death and life of great American cities
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006 
Paper Book
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on...
Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
Kanigel, Robert
Paper Book
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who...
Palaces for the people how social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life
Klinenberg, Eric 
Paper Book
"A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward."--Jon Stewart NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * "Engaging."--Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York...
Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
Barnet, Andrea
Paper Book
A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography Four influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly...

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