WSJ on Newark and Jane Jacobs

In an editorial-page article in the 11-May-06 Wall Street Journal (subscription required) on Newark's struggles to grow, Paul Mulshine gives us this gem:

[Richard Florida said,] "Jane Jacobs told me the problem is that these cities [like Newark] are run by squelchers." By that she meant politicos who try to stamp out anything they can't control. They love big public projects, but private enterprise makes them nervous. Meanwhile the professional planners on public payrolls are squelchers of a different sort. They keep trying to remake cities in their past image.

It's tragic that so many "planners" claim to love Jacobs but so obviously don't understand her.