Today's Google Doodle honors urban planner Jane Jacobs:

[femmocrat]

Urban planning legend and former Toronto resident Jane Jacobs would have turned 100 today. Her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, remains one of the most influential works on urban planning.

Jacobs, who died in 2006, made her name in the U.S. but lived in Toronto in the late 1960s.

Through her writing and activism, she changed the way many of us think about the places we live.

Google is celebrating Jacobs with a Google Doodle that appears on its home page today.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/jane-jacobs-1.3565626

More about Jane Jacobs: http://www.vox.com/2016/5/4/11583342/jane-jacobs-100th-birthday

[JackRiddler]

1. Worthy of kick.

[femmocrat]

2. Thanks!

[Odin2005]

3. One of the great minds of the 20th century.

I first learned about her in my early teens when she was mentioned in a message board for the game SimCity 2000 I frequented at the time. The urban planning orthodoxy of the mid-20th century was inhuman and insane. Brutalism, the "International Style" and similar forms of "modernist" architecture and technocratic urban planning disgust me, gross boring inhuman boxes are not fit for human life.