May 12, 2006
The Legacy of Jane Jacobs
Christopher Klemek, assistant professor of history at Florida International University
Jane Jacobs, who died last month at the age of 89, never earned a college degree and never held an academic position. But her ideas, put forward in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Random House, 1961) and its many successors, left deep impressions on the fields of sociology, economics, and urban studies.
Mr. Klemek — who will move to
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