Posted on 29/04/06
The places that mattered to Jane Jacobs
Kensington MarketWhen Ms. Jacobs and her family first moved to the city from New York in 1968, it was the market's humming chaos -- live chickens in cages, a multitude of languages, and thick knots of pedestrian traffic -- that made for love at first sight. Before renting their first apartment on Spadina Road, the family looked for flats along Baldwin Street. When they began house hunting, they revisited the neighbourhood before settling into the Annex. "There was no question that it felt like home to us," Jim Jacobs, her son, remembers of Kensington. "It was the variety, and all the things going on in the street and all the different people. It was the most intense mixture."
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