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.Posted by Admin at August 10, 2006 10:49 AM