she knew it was the people who made a city what it was

April 26, 2006 4:54 AM

Jane Jacobs--RIP ...in at least five fields of inquiry, she thought deeply and innovatively: urban design, urban history, regional economics, the morality of the economy and the nature of economic growth. Each of her major books led naturally to the next. From writing about how people functioned within cities, she analyzed how cities function within nations, how nations function with one another, how everyone functions in a world of conflicting moral principles and, finally, how economies grow like biological organisms. ... And her The Sidewalk Ballet, an excerpt from The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
posted by amberglow (4 comments total)

[this is a triple]
posted by zenzizi at 4:57 AM on April 26, 2006

[a quadruple even]
posted by zenzizi at 5:00 AM on April 26, 2006

Do I hear 5?
posted by Eekacat at 5:04 AM on April 26, 2006

Matt should either allow one of these to stay or change the incredibly stupid wording of the original post. Otherwise, there will be no end to the doubles.
posted by languagehat at 5:08 AM on April 26, 2006