The name Jane Jacobs may not mean anything to non-New Yorkers, (or even to many younger New Yorkers) but if it hadn't been for her, potentially new York as we know it would not exist today, and instead of the Village we would have a multi-lane highway running through lower Manhattan. Jane Jacobs loved New York and she loved diversity and she possessed the courage to stand up to the most powerful men in New York of her time, including the Zeus-like Robert Moses, and lead an activist revolt against the paving of New York. Later in the decade, as the Vietnam War raged, she and her husband removed their two sons from the draft line of fire by relocating to Canada, where she supported the separatist movement in Quebec. Jane Jacobs was an original, an intellectual (who never had a college degree), an author, an activist,a leader, a free thinker, who took on the powers-that-be and often prevailed, making her an inspiration to activists today.