Urban thinker Jane Jacobs dies

From EndCanadianPoverty.ca

• Date: April 25th, 2006
• Source: CBC News
• Link to article: Urban thinker Jane Jacobs dies

"Toronto-based urban critic and author Jane Jacobs died Tuesday morning. Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and most recently, Dark Age Ahead, was 89. Her powerful critiques about the urban renewal policies of North American cities have influenced thinking about urban planning for a generation. Born May 4, 1916, in Scranton, Penn., Jacobs had made her home in Canada since the late 1960s. Educated at Columbia University, she met her husband, architect Robert Jacobs, at the Office of War Information in New York, where she began writing during the war. "