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1 Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont was an American-born Canadian urbanist, writer and activist. She is best known for “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The more..

2 “ Jane Jacobs: But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. #Cities and City Life

3 “ Jane Jacobs: There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. #Order

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