R.I.P., Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs, possibly the world's best writer about urban planning, has died at the age of 89.
Update: The Toronto Star has a very nice, longer obituary that gets into some of the details of her work.
posted by Adam Villani @ 4/25/2006 12:59:00 PM
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So sad. We could use a lot more like her.
This is odd -- I just discovered that she's a Scranton native.
Yeah, I think what I like about her is that her theories are based on a reality that fully acknowledges human nature rather than some idealized and/or simplified vision of the world. A lot of people fool themselves into thinking their policies are "rational" when all they've really done is stripped away the messy, organic features, whether it's a building, a neighborhood, or an economy.
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