Jacobs combines praise for a very particular type of urban fabric (and a detailed, insightful explication of why it's good) with ideas about preservation and lo

Jacobs combines praise for a very particular type of urban fabric (and a detailed, insightful explication of why it's good) with ideas about preservation and local self-determination, which in her time functioned as a bulwark against modern car-centric design. Now you see NIMBYs who are attached to the "modern" suburban planning regime she helped to fight off, using the same rhetoric to prevent the formation of the same kind of neighborhood she was defending, now that it's back in style.