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Treating a city as an architectural problem to be ordered like art substitutes art for life
Drawn from what Jane Jacobs said
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- Jane Jacobs Writer and urbanist (1916 to 2006) whose The Death…
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life.
Where this was said
↗The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Random House, 1961)archive.org
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