Jane Jacobs' Dark Age Ahead

Mary Newsom reviews Jane Jacobs' book "Dark Age Ahead"

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September 15, 2004, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"...it's worth remembering that Jane Jacobs' theories have tended to be years -- even decades -- ahead of their time. "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" was mocked by respected planners; architecture and planning students were sometimes forbidden to read it, as it was written by someone who wasn't an architect or a planner or even -- gasp! -- a man."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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