Author

Books by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) was an American-Canadian writer and activist who had no formal training in urban planning or architecture. She worked as a journalist and editor in New York City and was a prominent opponent of Robert Moses's urban renewal and highway projects in lower Manhattan, including the successful campaign to block a highway through Washington Square Park. In 1968, she moved to Toronto, where she continued to write and organize around urban issues. The Death and Life of Great American Cities remains her most widely read work, though she wrote extensively on economic development, cities, and systems in books including The Economy of Cities and Cities and the Wealth of Nations.