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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Eyes on the Street The Life of Jane Jacobs Author:Robert Kanigel The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. — Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates?all of which she won.... more » Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses?s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.« less