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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
Jane Jacobs
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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Economist
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Jane Butzner Jacobs
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