Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities) dead.

[Marksix]

I read that Jane Jacobs the great urbanist has died in Toronto. She was the first person to succesfully highlight the profoundly anti city direction town planning had taken post war. The spectacular renaissance now occuring in cities around the world is in no small part a result of her ideas on urban neighbourhoods and how to positively tap the qualities inherent in every city influencing a new generation of planners and urban thinkers.

Her seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was largely based on her observations in New York. It should be a handbook for any downtown enthusiast or planner.

[lofter1]

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