Editing Jane Jacobs (section)

=== ''Amerika'' ===
She became a feature writer for the [[Office of War Information]] and then a reporter for ''[[Amerika (magazine)|Amerika]]'', a publication of the [[United States Department of State|US State Department]] in the Russian language.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/708496|title=The Unknown Jane Jacobs|journal=Reconsidering Jane Jacobs|first=Peter L.|last=Laurence|year=2011|editor-last1=Page|editor-first1=Max |editor-first2=Tim|editor-last2=Mennel |location=Chicago |publisher=APA Planners Press |isbn=978-1-932364-95-8 |access-date=5 May 2016}}</ref> While working there she met Robert Hyde Jacobs Jr., a Columbia-educated architect who was designing warplanes for [[Grumman]]. They married in 1944. Together they had a daughter, Burgin, and two sons, James and Ned. They bought a three-story building at 555 [[Hudson Street (Manhattan)|Hudson Street]]. Jane continued to write for ''Amerika'' after the war, while Robert left Grumman and resumed work as an architect.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|pp=25–27}} The Jacobses rejected the rapidly growing [[suburbs]] as "parasitic", choosing to remain in Greenwich Village.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|pp=29–30|ps=&nbsp; "The suburbs did not appeal to the Jacobs family. 'Suburbs are perfectly valid places to want to live, but they are inherently parasitic, economically and socially, too, because they live off the answers found in cities,' Jacobs told a reporter for ''Madmoiselle'' magazine in October 1962."}} They renovated their house, in the middle of a mixed residential and commercial area, and created a garden in the backyard.{{sfn|Flint|2009|p=14}}

Working for the State Department during the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy]] era, Jacobs received a questionnaire about her political beliefs and loyalties. Jacobs was anti-communist and had left the [[Federal Workers Union]] because of its apparent communist sympathies. Nevertheless, she was pro-union and purportedly appreciated the writing of [[Saul Alinsky]], and therefore she was under suspicion.{{sfn|Alexiou|2006|pp=30–31}}{{sfn|Flint|2009|p=16}} On 25 March 1952, Jacobs delivered her response to Conrad E. Snow, chairman of the Loyalty Security Board at the US Department of State. In her foreword to her answer, she said:

<blockquote>The other threat to the security of our tradition, I believe, lies at home. It is the current fear of radical ideas and of people who propound them. I do not agree with the extremists of either the left or the right, but I think they should be allowed to speak and to publish, both because they themselves have, and ought to have, rights, and once their rights are gone, the rights of the rest of us are hardly safe.{{sfn|Allen|1997|p=170}}</blockquote>