She was arrested in 1968 for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on that project. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through the area of Manhattan that would later become known as SoHo, as well as part of Little Italy and Chinatown. Jacobs organized grassroots efforts to protect neighborhoods from urban renewal and slum clearance – in particular plans by Robert Moses to overhaul her own Greenwich Village neighborhood. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that " urban renewal" and " slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers. Jane Jacobs OC OOnt ( née Butzner – 25 April 2006) was a US-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. OC, OOnt, Vincent Scully Prize, National Building Museum The Death and Life of Great American Cities Joint Committee to Stop the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Stop Spadina Save Our City Coordinating Committee Graduate of Scranton Central High School two years of undergraduate studies at Columbia University
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