Jane Jacobs

Jacobs is well known for organising efforts to protect existing neighbourhoods from "slum clearance"—and particularly for her opposition to Robert Moses in his plans to rebuild her neighbourhood of Greenwich Village. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through Washington Square Park, and was arrested in 1968 for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on the project. She did not have a college degree in urban planning, and was also criticised for being unscholarly and imprecise.

She was Influential in a Number of Successful urban Renewal projects and continued her writing up to 2006 publishing 7 books and countless articles.

Her legacy today still play a big role in architects planning and decision making and the American architectural landscape. Her battles that she fought back then are still ferociously weighed today. Her theories and charisma will still live on long into the future.