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,
“... to live in the city would have been seen as just a little weird’. She gathered the dominant urban ideas of the era together into a scathing portmanteau: ‘Radiant Garden City Beautiful’. Its components were Le Corbusier’s mid-1930s ‘Radiant City’, a vision of a city of towers in landscaped parkland, where housing was rigorously zoned to ... ”