{"id":44536,"date":"2025-11-04T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44536"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:17:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:17:42","slug":"context-184-under-the-spotlight-ihbcs-accessible-cpd-for-conservation-professionals-on-discovering-jane-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44536","title":{"rendered":"Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC\u2019s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, on \u2018Discovering Jane Jacobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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image: Jane Jacobs by Rob Cowan for IHBC Context 184<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IHBC\u2019s members\u2019 journal Context<\/em><\/a> in June 2025 \u2013 No. 184<\/a> \u2013 focussed on \u2018Leaders of conservation thought\u2019 included Joe Holyoak on \u2018Discovering Jane Jacobs\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Joe Holyoak writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings,\u2019 wrote Jane Jacobs, making the link between conservation and new ideas of urban design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first read Jane Jacobs\u2019 The Death and Life of Great American Cities1 in my final year as an architecture student. We were working on what was called a town planning project in Stoke-on-Trent, and I guess it was a recommended book. (If the project were done today, it would be called an urban design project, but the term was then not yet in general use). The book had a great impact on my thoughts. Twelve years later I read it again while on my urban design masters course. As I turned the pages, I was repeatedly astonished to read what I had negligently come to assume were my own thoughts, but which had actually been formulated 20 years earlier by Jane Jacobs, and absorbed by me. Jan Morris had a similar experience, as she later recorded in the2012 festschrift called Ideas That Matter: the worlds of Jane Jacobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morris writes about cities that she enjoys and says \u2018I don\u2019t really know how much of it is original to my own thought. Long ago my reasoning was Jacobsized, and all unwitting I probably joined the long ranks of her plagiarists\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In between those two readings of Death and Life I had become a conservationist\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See HERE<\/a> for the full article online and in <\/em>Context<\/em> <\/em>184<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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