[ClearCase_guy]

I thought Jane Jacobs opposed:

Big government projects
Spending taxpayer money on social engineering
Disrupting the lives of normal people because some bureaucrat “knew better”

I thought she was sensible.

[Lorianne]

She was. This article is digging deep to find fault in a perfect is the enemy of the good sort of way?

Would the author have preferred the area turn into slums ... as is the fate of most “tower in the park” schemes have done?

[outpostinmass2]

I agree. Another thing Jane Jacobs railed against was all the government buildings that were going up in downtown cities. She opposed eminent domain takings to put up social welfare buildings essentially making downtown an urban wasteland.