What Jane Jacobs thinks about design
Writer and urbanist (1916 to 2006) whose The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) attacked the city planning of her day and argued for dense, mixed, walkable neighbourhoods.
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1 dated position, c. 1961, in their own words. Our reading of what Jane Jacobs has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsCities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
↗The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Random House, 1961)archive.org All 10 from this book