# Citizen Jane: Jane Jacobs

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/portraits-of-liberty/citizen-jane-jane-jacobs>

**By** Paul Meany

**Published:** November 15, 2023

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Why cities are so much more than just buildings

## SUMMARY:

Jane Jacobs revolutionized the study of cities. She did not see them as merely areas of high population densities, but as huge laboratories for experimentation making cities the flash points of the history of human progress. Her intellectual career was spent checking the hubris of government officials.

### Further Reading:

[A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5362-2) by Sanford Ikeda