Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Jane Jacobs has died
Long live her work, a mind on the level of Robert Caro. I found her books fascinating because they intuitively made sense of a vast body of experience I had living and putting around in New York, and gave me a reason to challenge on purely rational grounds the aesthetic unpleasantness of the project model of housing.
And while we're at it, for those who want to learn a lot about why New York looks the way it does:
And while we're at it, for those who want to learn a lot about why New York looks the way it does:
