Jane Jacobs was born 100 years ago today. Through her civic activism, and through her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), she transformed how we understand the places we live, showing how city planning can't just be about order and speed, but must also celebrate the chaotic life of sidewalks and neighborhoods.
And to celebrate her birthday, here's a blog post I wrote two years ago about the tussle between Jacobs and Robert Moses over an expressway and the future of Lower Manhattan. I was living in Greenwich Village at the time � the neighborhood that in the 1950s Jacobs and others fought to preserve. And she won.
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