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Jane Jacobs was not a conservative in the conventional sense--a native of Scranton, Pa., she opposed the Vietnam War and moved to Toronto in 1968--but there was something positively Burkean about her love of neighborhoods. Her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, is a bracing and witty attack on central planners who level urban communities with wrecking balls to make way for large-scale government projects. (Several years ago, an NR panel named Death and Life one of the hundred best non-fiction books of the 20th century.) She was a lifelong critic of eminent domain; a year and ...