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ddjiii: "Ground-breaking" and "revolutionary" are overused but necessary here. When this book was published in 1961, Jacobs was a neighborhood activist with no training in design, economics or city planning, but she changed how cities are planned and built. Jacobs was an amateur and gadfly whose focus on street life, community, and urbanity was deeply contrary to the city planning of the time, but she established a new orthodoxy; almost all planners today acknowledge a debt and cite her as a major influence. Her observations and conclusions are still debated (particularly in economic matters) but her dominance is unquestioned. Finally, this may be the only well written and engaging work on city planning yet produced. (added at 10:07:46 AM on 09/17/07)