Jane Jacobs

Steve Payne for The New York Times. The author Jane Jacobs on the porch of her home in Toronto, June 9, 2003.

The New York Times obituary, "Jane Jacobs, Social Critic Who Redefined and Championed Cities, Is Dead at 89," has links to five reviews of her books over the years, including:

-- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
-- The Economy of Cities (1969)
-- Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1992)

And the New York Times, unlike the Washington Post, understood where to print her obituary--ON THE FRONT PAGE! (although only for the NYC edition, not the National edition or the Washington edition, which is what we get in the DC region).


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