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,
“... which began in 1936, was dominated by The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Kanigel, like Nathan Storring and Samuel Zipp, is keen to make a case for what she did both before and after it, but the space he gives to the various phases of her life tells its own story. Only a quarter of Eyes on the Street is devoted to the fifty years of Jacobs’s ... ”
