Posted on 26/04/06
Fond farewell to an urban prophet
TORONTO -- Was any writer of her generation as influential as Jane Jacobs? The question is intriguing, but impossible. On the one hand, Ms. Jacobs was generally ignored by the intellectual establishments she assailed throughout her career, making little impact on what such establishments call "the literature." She remained determinedly marginal both in her point of view and her successive homes -- from Scranton to the Lower East Side to Toronto -- and used the vantage to see through the fog of received wisdom that envelops all establishments. Even as she ascended to the status of iconic iconoclast, Ms. Jacobs remained a consummate outsider.
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