[IP] Jane Jacobs dies

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Spurgeon, Chris" <cspurgeon@americanpublicmedia.org>
Date: April 25, 2006 2:59:20 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Jane Jacobs dies

Prof. Farber....

IP readers may want to know that urban critic Jane Jacobs has passed  
away at age 89.

Her 1961 book, "The Death and Live of American Cities" took on New  
York's Robert Moses and his ilk of uber urban planners. She was  
perhaps the first, and certainly one of the best, advocates for small  
neighborhoods within cities...places where stores, restaurants,  
parks, schools, and housing for all levels of income can all co-exist.


Chris Spurgeon, Los Angeles

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