[sustran] Jane Jacobs died Tuesday

[Paul Barter]

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-jacobs26apr26,
1,178553.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
'Jane Jacobs, an urban theorist and community activist whose books
argued for the rehabilitation of neighborhoods on traditional lines,
breaking with emerging trends in city development, died Tuesday. She was
89.'
...
'She was internationally known as an advocate of cities with distinct
neighborhoods, built to a human scale, mixing commercial and residential
space.

She was against building highways that cut through city centers and was
once arrested at a public hearing after she stormed the podium to
express her opposition to a plan for an expressway through lower
Manhattan.

"Jane Jacobs' thinking about cities was clear and it came from a person
who lived in cities," Toronto Mayor David Miller told The Times on
Tuesday. "She didn't just write about urban issues. She acted on her
convictions."

Jacobs' most influential work, 1961's "The Death and Life of Great
American Cities," set the stage for a battle that Jacobs waged for
decades. Defying popular theories on how to renew city slums by plowing
them under and replacing them with uniform housing projects, she pushed
for recycled buildings and new structures scaled to the existing
neighborhood.'
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