Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Death and Life became the most famous book on urban planning. It is fundamentally about the natural origins and benefits of “the spontaneous order.” Written a third of a century after Euclid normalized centralized planning, Death and Life rejected that precedent, arguing that throughout human history, cities had been built on spontaneity, with mill... See more
What’s Next for Jane Jacobs' Sidewalk Ballet?
Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Author and activist Jane Jacobs argued that cities thrive when they mingle “everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets.”
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Whatever the reason it ended the way it did, his fight with Robert Moses was one of the best things that ever happened to Joe Papp. By making him the hero of the city’s wealthy liberals, it gave him the money—both from private contributions and, after the Fifth Amendment flurry had faded from public consciousness, from a Wagner-prodded city governm
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