The prominent sociologist and critic of architecture and urbanism, Jane Jacobs, died on Tuesday, April 25, 2006, in Toronto at the age of 89. In the 1930s, she worked as a local journalist and became involved in architecture only during World War II, when she met her future husband, Richard Jacobs. In her most famous publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, published in 1961 (Odeon published it in Czech in 1975), she subjected classical modernism and urban planning in the spirit of economic pragmatism to devastating criticism. In 1968, she moved to Canada in protest against the American war in Vietnam. Info>
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