Allan B. Jacobs (born 29 December 1928) is an urban designer, renowned for his publications and research on

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. His well-known paper ''"Toward an Urban Design Manifesto"'', written with

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, and worked on planning projects in the City of

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and for the

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in Calcutta, India, and spent eight years as Director of the

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Department of City Planning. In 1978 Jacobs presented his ‘Making City Planning Work’ that offered reflections on his experiences as the San Francisco planning director from 1967 to 1975 and guided on bureaucratic and political processes navigation that often hamper the realization of desired planning policies and outcomes. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin Lynch Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jacobs taught in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the

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from 1975 until 2001, teaching courses in city planning and urban design and serving twice as the department's chair. He is currently a

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. He is currently a consultant in city planning and urban design with projects in California, Oregon, and Brazil, among others.

Education

Jacobs earned a

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, from

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and a

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in city planning from the

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in 1954. He then attended the

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

. From 1954 to 1955, Jacobs was studying city planning as a

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University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

Notable works

* The

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Element of the

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* Allan Jacobs and

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, 1987. * ''Making City Planning Work'' (1980) * ''Looking at Cities'' (1985) * ''Great Streets'' (1995) * ''The Boulevard Book'' (2003) with Elizabeth MacDonald and Yodan Rofe * ''The Good City: Reflections and Imaginations'' (2011)

Honors

* Athena Medal from the

Congress for the New Urbanism New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually inf ...

, 2008.
Kevin Lynch Award
presented at MIT's "Imaging the City" symposium, 1999. *

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Excellence in Education Award, California Chapter, 1994 * Resident in Architecture,

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, 1996 *

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awarded in 1981John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows, Humanities, Field of Study: Architecture, Planning and Design, Competition: US & Canada
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References

Allan B. Jacobs
Project for Public Spaces.

Bruner Foundation.

City of Calgary (Alberta, Canada).
Allan Jacobs
University of California, Berkeley.

External links

University of California, Berkeley. *Barry, Sean
"Speakers Envision Downtown's Future"
''The Daily Californian'', January 19, 2006. *Pollack, Theo Mackey
"What Makes a Great Street?"
New Urbs,''The American Conservative'', April 13, 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Allan Urban theorists Miami University alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty Living people Urban designers American urban planners 1928 births