Jane Jacobs KU and served with several public

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she realized that there had to be a better way to get this critical job done

was a socialite and culturally sophisticated woman

Jane Jacobs KU and served with several publicJacobs was a writer, activist, and visionary whose work had a profound effect on the way we look at the urban areas around us. She was considered an outcast in the male dominated world of urban planning, yet her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, remains a seminal text in this field. One of the great joys of this book is that Jacobs is not an academic, but rather a committed city dweller who obliviously derives much pleasure from