Spadina Expressway: Jacobs and Vietnam War

spadina expressway: Jane's Walk is held the first weekend in May to commemorate her birthday, according to Hamilton Spectator. Jane Jacobs was instrumental in stopping the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway in the 1960s which would have decimated the ethnic communities of Little Italy, Soho and Greenwich Village, the arts mecca where she lived. Jane's Walk was started in 2007 to recognize the work that city booster Jane Jacobs did over her lifetime to promote healthy and thriving inner city neighbourhoods. After being arrested in 1968 and dismayed by the Vietnam War being waged by the U.S., Jacobs moved to Toronto in 1968 and immediately became involved in the Spadina Expressway and Don Valley controversies. The oft used phrases social capital and eyes on the street come from this book. Jacob's 1961 tome The Life and Death of American Cities sits upon the shelves of urban planners and community activists alike today. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.