1961
Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities is an influential critique of 1950s urban planning in the United States. She argued that modernist planning principles, followed by the likes of Robert Moses and Le Corbusier, often oversimplified urban environments and replaced vibrant neighborhoods with sterile and inhuman spaces. Her research was partly funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and connected her to major urban thinkers at the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.