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    The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs. The book is a critique of 1950s urban planning policy, which...
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    Jane Jacobs (category Members of the Order of Ontario)
    Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers. Jacobs organized...
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    The death of Alexander the Great and subsequent related events have been the subjects of debates. According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander...
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    book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Some of the earlier garden city ideas of the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and the urban...
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    15-minute city, Carlos Moreno, an advisor to Anne Hidalgo, cited Jane Jacobs's model presented in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The ongoing...
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    work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In the 1960s, Jacobs criticized the modern and rationalist architecture of Robert Moses and Le Corbusier...
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    Stoop (architecture) (category Culture of the United States)
    to Stoops. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York: Random House, 1961 Mario Maffi, New York City: An Outsider's Inside View...
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    56–87. Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961. "Canaryville", Encyclopedia of Chicago Ali, Tanveer (November...
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    Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), which stated that Americans need to keep their "eyes on the streets" and connect with...
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    Much of her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, focuses on residents' and nonresidents' contributions to maintaining order on the street...
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