Urban investment

Jacobs was a journalist–not a planner or architect– living in New York City. This text was published toward the end of her long (and ultimately successful) popular campaign against the Lower Manhattan Expressway project proposed by Robert Moses (the chief urban planner for New York City for decades). If you’re interested in the history, see this newspaper article recounting the history in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/28/sto… or look on Wikipedia. (SKIM)