![]() ![]() Jacobs organized grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance – in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that " urban renewal" and " slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers. Jane Jacobs OC OOnt ( née Butzner – 25 April 2006) was a US-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. ![]() OC, OOnt, Vincent Scully Prize, National Building Museum The Death and Life of Great American Cities Joint Committee to Stop the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Stop Spadina Save Our City Coordinating Committee ![]() Graduate of Scranton Central High School two years of undergraduate studies at Columbia University ![]()
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