August 10, 2006

Jane Jacobs Revisited

On finally reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Karrie Jacobs

The mistake made by Jacobs’s detractors and acolytes alike is to regard her as a champion of stasis—to believe she was advocating the world’s cities be built as simulacra of the West Village circa 1960. Admirers and opponents have routinely taken her arguments for complexity and turned them into formulas.

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