Jane Jacobs (1916–2006)

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1. Jane Jacobs

   Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Dark Age Ahead, Cities and the Wealth of Nations

2. Henry James

   Author of Collected Travel Writings: The Continent, Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America), Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America

3. James Howard Kunstler

   Author of Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent, Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century

4. Christopher Alexander

   Author of A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction, The Timeless Way of Building

5. Edmund Wilson

   Author of To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews, Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and

6. Kevin Lynch

   Author of The Image of the City, Good City Form

7. Andres Duany

   Author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

8. Witold Rybczynski

   Author of Home; a Short History of an Idea, City Life

9. Joel Garreau

   Author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

10. Lewis Mumford

    Author of The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

11. Fernand Braudel

    Author of The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1, The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3

12. Rem Koolhaas

    Author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

13. Robert A. Caro

    Author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

14. Mike Davis

    Author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

15. Kenneth T. Jackson

    Author of Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

16. Ted Widmer

    Author of American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War, American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton (Library of America)

17. William Maxwell

    Author of William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories, William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow (Library of America #184)

18. James Agee

    Author of James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America), Film Writing and Selected Journalism

19. Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

    Author of Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America), Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches (Library of America)

20. A. J. Liebling

    Author of A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings (Library of America), A.J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings: The Earl of Louisiana / The Jollity Building / Between Meals / The Press (Library of America No. 191)