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A thoughtfully selected and annotated collection of lessons and speeches that highlights Jacobs's evolution and iconoclasm. I don't always agree with Jacobs (indeed, often I find myself frustrated at how much she generalizes from her own narrow experiences), but I can't deny her role as agent provocateur to the establishment or her wide-ranging intellect.
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This was definitely an interesting read, though I'm not sure I really needed to read the whole nearly-five-hundred-pages. The early sections were useful as extensions of some of Jane Jacobs's thoughts from The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In the later sections, the topic shifts to economics more generally, though, and I am less sure how seriously to take all of her ideas.
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