“This book is an attack on current city planning….” Thus began Jane Jacobs' 1961 popular classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. “The Jane Jacobs book is going to do a lot of harm…(b)ut we are going to have to live with it. So batten down the hatches.” This was the reaction of the director of the American Society of Planning Officials, Dennis O'Harrow, in a first comment in the Society's newsletter.