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John Barber

John Barber is a widely published journalist and former columnist with the Globe and Mail.

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A Quiet Overthrow

The paradigmatic prescience of Jane Jacobs March 2019
Jane Jacobs remains celebrated for her contributions to urban planning, most famously in her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, released in 1961. But Jacobs, who died in 2006, staked her own claim to posterity on the insights of her second book. Published fifty years ago, in 1969, The Economy of Cities is even more audacious than its…