by Geoff Cobb 
The name Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) is legendary in urban planning and in the last year of her life, Jacobs had a prescient warning about the future of our waterfront in Brooklyn. Her 2005 letter about plans to develop the local waterfront is so timely that it seems like it could have been written today.
Jacobs was a revolutionary urbanist and activist whose groundbreaking writings championed a community-based approach…
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