Jane Jacobs Gets a Google Doodle For Her 100th Birthday

By Maryann Yin 

Jane Jacobs Google Doodle (GalleyCat)

Google has created a Doodle to celebrate the journalist and author, Jane Jacobs. This year would’ve been her 100th birthday.

Here’s more from the Google Doodle website: “Jane Jacobs was a self-taught journalist and community organizer that supported keeping the city of New York diverse in shape and function…Jacobs developed her philosophy through living and interacting with the city itself, and described life on the city streets as a kind of social ballet. Her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) still sits in the American Library of Congress. ”

In the past, Google has crafted Doodles in honor of Little House series author Laura Ingalls WilderWhere the Wild Things Are creator Maurice Sendak, and renowned English playwright William ShakespeareHere’s a video from Google headquarters spotlighting the artists behind the doodles. Which authors would you suggest as future Doodle subjects?