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A obra de Jacobs ainda é, em sua maior parte, desconhecida no Brasil. Este artigo pretende iniciar a suprir esse déficit, fazendo um panorama de toda sua obra: seus livros, suas principais ideias, suas contribuições efetivas, os limites de suas abordagens e as polêmicas em que Jacobs se envolveu – de seu ativismo na Nova York de Edward Moses ao seu status como pioneira da jovem disciplina dos estudos urbanos, proponente de teorias como a dos efeitos positivos da diversidade econômica, e pensadora transdisciplinar.Palavras-chave: Jane Jacobs. Estudos urbanos. Economia espacial. Ecologia. Cultura. Transdisciplinaridade.

AbstractSegregation has been one of the most persistent features of urban life and, accordingly, one of the main subjects of enquiry in urban studies. Stemming from a tradition that can be traced back to the Chicago School in the early twentieth century, social segregation has been seen as the natural consequence of the social division of space. Such naturalized understanding of segregation as 'territorial segregation' takes space as a surrogate for social distance. We propose a shift in the focus from the static segregation of places—where social distance is assumed rather than fully explained—to how social segregation is reproduced through embodied urban trajectories. We aim to accomplish this by exploring the spatial behaviour of different social groups as networks of movement that constitute opportunities for co‐presence. This alternative view recasts the original idea of segregation as 'restrictions on interaction' by concentrating on the spatiality of segregation potentially active in the circumstances of social contact and encounters in the city. This approach to segregation as a subtle process that operates ultimately through trajectories of the body is illustrated by an empirical study in a Brazilian city.