The late Jane Jacobs is an urban legend. She achieved that status after writing about her successful campaign to save New York City’s West Village from the wrecking ball. Jacobs had the perfect villain in Robert Moses and an unpopular target in plans to build a freeway through a middle-class neighborhood. Jacobs transformed this struggle into an iconic victory for neighborhood preservation.
The 1980’s struggle by San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to stop highrise luxury hotels reflects this neighborhood preservation legacy. Cadillac Hotel owner Kathy Looper and I will put that fight in the context of Jacobs’ own struggle at a free zoom event for the Tenderloin Museum on Wednesday, October 13 at 1:00 PM PST.
You can get all the information and the zoom link here.