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[With] piercing analysis, crystalline prose and [a] finely-honed sense of morality, Jacobs covers an amazing amount of ground. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Altogether magnificent...Probably no single thinker has done more in the last fifty years to transform our ideas about the nature of urban life. -- Chicago Tribune Superb...Cobbling together a little urban anthropology, a little economic history, and a vast store of highly nuanced personal observations...Jacobs is an indispensable provocateur. -- Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer and activist who championed new approaches to urban planning for more than forty years. Her 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities became perhaps the most influential American text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of urban planners and activists. Kate Rudd, actress and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared in several independent films and shorts, as well as in multiple episodes of the television show Perks. As an audiobook narrator she has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration.

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