The Next American City, January 1st, 2006
Why Jane Jacobs' followers still misunderstand her most important contributions to urban thought
THE DAY AFTER HER DEATH IN APRIL, newspapers across North America eulogized Jane Jacobs. Reporters and op-ed writers praised her masterwork, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, as the most important book on cities in the 20th century. Planners, architects, critics, developers, and government officials in every major North American city spoke about how Death and Life changed the way they looked at cities, and changed their lives.
Revolutionary when it was published, Death and Life has sin...
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