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New ideas often need old buildings.

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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Economist
Journalist
Sociologist
Urban Planner
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Jane Butzner
Jane Butzner Jacobs
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I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.
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Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
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