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When was Jane Jacobs Born?

  • 4 May 1916

  • 21 March 1900

  • 15 July 1928

  • 2 December 1910

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Jane Jacobs was born on 4 May 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She was an American writer and urban planner who is considered one of the most influential thinkers on cities in the 20th century. Jacobs's work criticized the modernist approach to urban planning that had been dominant since the 1950s, which she argued led to the destruction of traditional urban neighborhoods and the creation of sterile, lifeless cities.
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