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Book of the Week: Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Writer and activist Jane Jacobs had an urgent vision of urban spaces in the 1960s that retains relevance today
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A city cannot be a work of art.”

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.”

Citizens of big cities need fulcrum points where they can apply their pressures, and make their wills and their knowledge known and respected.”

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.”

Quotes can be found on pages 372, 50, 390, and 422 respectively.

Book of the Week Buy Link: 
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/86058/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities-50th-anniversary-edition-by-jane-jacobs
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