When city planning supremo Robert Moses proposed a road through
Greenwich Village in 1955, he met opposition from one particularly feisty local
resident: Jane Jacobs. It was the start of a decades-long struggle for swaths
of New York.
Jacobs – one of those common citizens, denigrated at the time as merely
a “housewife” – has, perhaps more than any other, offered inspiration to those
informed that plans drawn up in the corridors of power will require them to
move elsewhere. Simply say “no”.
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