Eyes On The Street: The Life Of Jane Jacobs

"Perhaps it’s not as momentous as Henry Hudson sailing into New York Harbor in 1609, but Jane Jacobs’ 1934 arrival in Greenwich Village (at age 18) also changed the city’s history. Jacobs fought to save Washington Square and the Village itself from Robert Moses’ plan to build an expressway through the heart of Lower Manhattan; and she drew on her life as a downtown mother of three to inform her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, author Robert Kanigel is a lively writer, and *Eyes on the Street * is an all too rare biography of the making of a female public intellectual."