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Jane Jacobs

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Profession
Journalist
Died
Apr 25, 2006
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Scranton PA
About
An American-Canadian journalist and author, she is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a groundbreaking work that criticized urban renewal. She is often regarded as one of the main influences behind the New Urbanist movement.
Family
She married Robert Hyde Jacobs in 1944. An opponent of the Vietnam War, she moved to Canada in the late 1960s and lived in Toronto for the remainder of her life.

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