Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well known for organizing grass-roots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods.

Separating the two is a grassy bluff where tenements stood before a much-maligned, late-1960's urban-renewal project ripped them down.

The results of this one-man urban-renewal project are (to select just the right early-60's adjective) fabulous.

For Mount Vernon, a city that is struggling economically, it could mean $6 million for an urban-renewal project to build a multiservice transportation center.

State officials characterized the action as a decisive step forward for the largest public commercial urban-renewal project ever planned in the state.

The land across the street from me was part of an urban-renewal project covering 20 blocks that was supposed to be completed in the 1970's.

In mid-1962 the Urban Renewal Administration announced stiffer rules to insure that families displaced by urban-renewal projects were not left without decent housing.

The authority was created under a 1984 law to channel casino money into urban-renewal projects.

And ordinary citizens don't want it; they associate planning with the crude postwar urban-renewal projects that Jane Jacobs so cogently attacked.

The Portland Development Commission carried out a $2.85 million urban-renewal project in Kenton in 2010.