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Jane Jacobs

1916 - 2006

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Jane Isabel Jacobs (née Butzner; 4 May 1916 – 25 April 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The 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 grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance, in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through the area of Manhattan that would later become known as SoHo, as well as part of Little Italy and Chinatown. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Jacobs is the 2,034th most popular writer (down from 1,948th in 2019), the 2,980th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,465th in 2019) and the 240th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Jane Jacobs ranks 2,034 out of 7,302. Before her are Elvira Madigan, Ion of Chios, Kateb Yacine, Antun Vrančić, Aryadeva, and Magnus Felix Ennodius. After her are Anne Perry, Verrius Flaccus, Guido Gezelle, Hamdallah Mustawfi, Emma Jung, and Pir Sultan Abdal.

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Among people born in 1916, Jane Jacobs ranks 91. Before her are Shirley Jackson, Ri Jong-ok, Ray Conniff, James Herriot, José Manuel Moreno, and Mika Špiljak. After her are Betty Grable, Yekaterina Budanova, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Pérez Prado, Chiang Wei-kuo, and Luis Corvalán. Among people deceased in 2006, Jane Jacobs ranks 105. Before her are Robert Plutchik, Óscar Míguez, Tadao Onishi, P. F. Strawson, Peter Boyle, and Johannes Willebrands. After her are Pierre Clostermann, Anna Moffo, June Allyson, Nadira, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, and Ali Farka Touré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 2,980 out of 20,380. Before her are Clark L. Hull (1884), William Klein (1928), Charles Rangel (1930), Randy Rhoads (1956), Brian Kobilka (1955), and Martin Davis (1928). After her are Alexander Shulgin (1925), Lea Thompson (1961), Miguel Ferrer (1955), Vera Farmiga (1973), Martha Scott (1912), and Karen Allen (1951).

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Among writers born in United States, Jane Jacobs ranks 240. Before her are William Moulton Marston (1893), Virginia Henderson (1897), Frances Harper (1825), Walter Tevis (1928), Langston Hughes (1902), and Audre Lorde (1934). After her are Bernard Malamud (1914), Eugene Nida (1914), Tom Wolfe (1930), James E. Gunn (1923), Carl Sandburg (1878), and Edmond Hamilton (1904).

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