Where are all the people?
Owen Hatherley: Jane Jacobs, 27 July 2017
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
by Robert Kanigel.
Knopf, 512 pp., £34, September 2016,978 0 307 96190 7 Show More
by Robert Kanigel.
Knopf, 512 pp., £34, September 2016,
Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.
Random House, 544 pp., £16.99, October 2016,978 0 399 58960 7 Show More
edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.
Random House, 544 pp., £16.99, October 2016,
“... interests of real estate and cash-poor councils were taken into consideration, and that reason is: Jane Jacobs says no. This injunction can be traced back to the epiphany Jacobs experienced as a freelance journalist in Philadelphia in the mid-1950s when she visited new housing estates and old ‘slums’ with the city ... ”