I was going to post her name. Jane Jacobs wrote, among other books:<p>- Cities and the Wealth of Nations<p>- The Death and Life of Great American Cities<p>- The Economy of Cities<p>Her last book, in 2004, was ominously titled &quot;Dark Age Ahead&quot;.<p>Incidentally, I worked down the street from where she lived at the time of her death (the Annex, in Toronto).  Her ideas were a recurring topic at the pub, the Duke of York.