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Stay cool out there this week, Toledo.

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Happy Mothers Day to all celebrating today!

Today, and everyday, we’re proud to celebrate our very own mother of urbanism, Jane Jacobs, without whom our work and purpose would not be possible.

Written in 1961 as a challenge to the prevailing and often misguided minds in urban planning, her seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, remains as relevant today as it ever has been.

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