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,
“... zoned to separate it from industry, leisure areas and the central business district; Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-Morrow (1902), which proposed verdant, self-contained new towns to accommodate what would later be called ‘overspill’ from the metropolis; and the City Beautiful Movement, which seized American planners in the early 1900s with ... ”