[URBAN NOTE] "Jane Jacobs was wrong"

[rfmcdpei]

Last weekend was all about Jane Jacobs--the Jane at Home exhibit, the Jane's Walks. This weekend, I'm linking to Noel Maurer's criticism of Jacobs' thought over at The Power and the Money. It is thorough.

Jacobs was truthy. She made claims about social cohesion coming from architecture for which she had no evidence. She refused to acknowledge that

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[resonant]

Do you want a huge pile of city planning books (including my Jane Jacobs books)?