Best of Bike Delaware 2012: “Jane Jacobs Medal Winner Janette Sadik-Khan”

 

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Why Delaware Needs the Bike and Pedestrian Improvements Program at DelDOT

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Why Delaware Needs the Bike and Pedestrian Improvements Program at DelDOT

Between May of 1997 and March of 2008 (over 10 years), Delaware’s unemployment rate was between 3 and 4%. But for the last four years, unemployment has stubbornly...

 

Will the Delaware General Assembly Vote For Bike and Pedestrian Improvements This Year?

Will the Delaware General Assembly Vote For Bike and Pedestrian Improvements This Year?

We know what we want. And it all comes back to the “Bike and Pedestrian Improvements” program authorization for the Delaware Department of Transportation. We...

 

News Journal: “State agencies draw up a dream trail for cyclists”

News Journal: “State agencies draw up a dream trail for cyclists”

by Melissa Nann Burke The News Journal February 15, 2013 Relatively few Delaware workers commute by bike, but they might reconsider when cyclists are whizzing...

 
 

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2012 Look Back: This article was originally published on February 1, 2012.  It was the 8th most viewed Bike Delaware article of 2012.

2011 winner Janet Sadik-Khan

In 2007, the year after the visionary urban activist Jane Jacobs died, the Rockefeller Foundation launched the Jane Jacobs annual award to honor her work. This medal reaffirms the Foundation’s commitment to New York City by recognizing those whose creative uses of the urban environment build a more diverse, dynamic and equitable city.

Jane Jacobs’ ties to the Rockefeller Foundation stretch back a half-century (to 1958) when this relatively unknown scholar received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to expand upon her ideas about how a city should look and feel and work.

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