August 2009
4 posts
“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back...”
– John Ed Pearce
The Puzzle Place
via NY Times
The World According To Jane Jacobs
A friend once described Jane Jacobs as his “intellectual crush,” an appropriate term for the urban genius. As her beautiful obituary explains, “At a time when both common and inspired wisdom called for bulldozing slums and opening up city space, Ms. Jacobs’s prescription was ever more diversity, density and dynamism — in effect, to crowd people and activities together in...