Jane Jacobs: Community impact and why it’s a key metric

Lydia Miljan, Professor of Political Science at the University of Windsor, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Jane Jacobs’ unconventional road to economic thinking through community activism and urbanism—and why assessing the needs of communities within cities remains vital for effective, non-disruptive urban planning/design. They even get into the various ways community, big or small scale, combats isolation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Economist Rosemarie Fike explores the insights and lasting legacies of the world's greatest economists, thinkers and scholars, including: Adam Smith, F.A. Hayek, John Stuart Mill, Milton Friedman, John Locke, Elinor Ostrom, and many more. Learn about their most important ideas, which helped to shape the free and prosperous societies that many of us enjoy today. And discover why their insights are still relevant in today’s modern world. Visit www.essentialscholars.org to download books, explore our animated videos and more.