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 a jumping, joyous urban jumble.” New York is forever indebted to Jacobs because, after all, downtown is for people.
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