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“She believed that residential and commercial activity should be in the same place, that the safest neighbourhoods teem with life, short winding streets are better than long straight ones, low-rise housing is better than impersonal towers, that a neighbourhood is where people talk to one another. … Mrs. Jacobs was seen by many of her supporters — mistakenly — as left-wing. Not so. Her views embraced the marketplace, supported privatization of utilities, frowned on subsidies, and detested the intrusions of government, big or small. Nor was she right-wing. In fact, she had no time for ideology.” (04/27/06)