Editing Jane Jacobs (section)

=== ''Architectural Forum'' ===
Jacobs left ''Amerika'' in 1952 when it announced its relocation to [[Washington, DC]].<ref name="academia.edu">{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/708475|title=The Death and Life of Urban Design: Jane Jacobs, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New Research in Urbanism, 1955–1965|date=June 2006|journal=Journal of Urban Design|first=Peter L.|last=Laurence|pages=145–172|volume=11|issue=2|doi=10.1080/13574800600644001|s2cid=110512401}}</ref> She then found a well-paying job at ''[[Architectural Forum]]'', published by [[Henry Luce]] of [[Time Inc.]]{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|p=33}} She was hired as an associate editor. After early success in that position, Jacobs began to take assignments on urban planning and "[[urban blight]]".{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|p=34}} In 1954, she was assigned to cover the [[Society Hill]] development designed by [[Edmund Bacon (architect)|Edmund Bacon]]. Although her editors expected a positive story, Jacobs criticized Bacon's project, reacting against its lack of concern for the poor African Americans who were directly affected. When Bacon showed Jacobs examples of undeveloped and developed blocks, she determined that "development" seemed to end community life on the street.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|pp=39–40|ps=&nbsp; {{"'}}I said, "Where are the people?" [Bacon] didn't answer. He only said, "They don't appreciate these things.{{"'}} At that moment, Jacobs realized that the high-rise projects that Bacon was so proud of had been designed with total disregard for its inhabitants."}}{{sfn|Flint|2009|pp=19–20}} When Jacobs returned to the offices of ''Architectural Forum'', she began to question the 1950s consensus on urban planning.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|p=41|ps=&nbsp; "When Jacobs returned to New York from Philadelphia, she began arguing with her ''Architectural Forum'' editors. All the hyped new projects that planners and architects were building in the cities, she told them, bore no relation to what people actually needed."}}

In 1955, Jacobs met William Kirk, an Episcopal minister who worked in [[East Harlem]]. Kirk came to the ''Architectural Forum'' offices to describe the impact that "revitalization" had on East Harlem, and he introduced Jacobs to the neighborhood.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|pp=43–49}}

In 1956, while standing in for [[Douglas Haskell]] of ''Architectural Forum'', Jacobs delivered a lecture at [[Harvard University]].<ref name="academia.edu" /> She addressed leading architects, urban planners, and intellectuals (including [[Lewis Mumford]]), speaking on the topic of East Harlem. She urged this audience to "respect – in the deepest sense – strips of chaos that have a weird wisdom of their own not yet encompassed in our concept of urban order". Contrary to her expectations, the talk was received with enthusiasm, but it also marked her as a threat to established urban planners, real estate owners, and developers.{{sfn|Flint|2009|pp=24–26}}{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|pp=57–59}} ''Architectural Forum'' printed the speech that year, along with photographs of East Harlem.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|p=60}}