globeandmail.com : Jane Jacobs dies

what most people will remember about Jane Jacobs is the way she thought about issues. Largely self-educated, she was an acute observer of the complexity of life. She loved to walk the streets, storing information and insights in her prodigious brain, facts and incidents that she would then analyze, seeking patterns to explain why some neighbourhoods flourished and others declined.

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loathed the modern tendency to credentialism,

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She arrived in Toronto and almost immediately became embroiled in desperate struggles between developers who wanted to tear down historic properties to erect high rises and politicians who wanted to build expressways to bring cars from the suburbs into the downtown core.

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