Jane Jacobs
Jane Isabel Jacobs was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. 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.
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"Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada."
"I have learned yet again what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically."
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