Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs Tapa dura - 2016

SAMUEL ZIPP is a writer and historian. He is the author of the award-winning Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York, which tells the larger history of the battles around urban renewal that propelled Jane Jacobs to national fame, and has written on urbanism and culture for the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Nation. He is currently a professor at Brown University and lives in Providence.

NATHAN STORRING is a curator, writer, and designer who specializes in making contemporary architecture and city planning accessible to the general public. He currently works at Project for Public Spaces, an urban advocacy organization founded to put the ideas of progressive urbanists like Jane Jacobs into practice. He lives in New York City. The author lives in Providence, RI and New York, NY.