March 7, 2008
The Legacy of Jane Jacobs
In his 1962 New Yorker review of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the architecture critic Lewis Mumford credited Jane Jacobs for her much-needed criticism of so-called urban renewal, which was reducing whole sections of cities to "gargantuan nonentities," as he put it. But other than that, he
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