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In celebration of Writers & Company's 30th anniversary, we present some of the best interviews from the special series Original Minds — five inspiring people whose work has made a difference to how we see the world: Jane Goodall, Oliver Sacks, Amartya Sen, Jane Jacobs, and Desmond Tutu.

Writers & Company presents more "Original Minds" - writers and thinkers who have made a difference in their work and lives. This week, Canadian Jane Jacobs. In the more than forty years since the publication of her groundbreaking book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs' influence has been extraordinary - not only on architects, community workers, and planners, but also on Nobel Prize-winning economists and ecologists.