![]() ![]() At the time city planning aimed to make cities orderly, with tall buildings and open space, and had no qualms about demolishing large swaths of neighborhoods to make their ideas reality, as with New York City’s Cross Bronx Expressway. Jacobs was not just a writer who had big ideas, she was also the champion of those ideas in the real world. ![]() MORE: Read TME’s 1962 Cover Story on the American Urban Renaissance “This is not the rebuilding of cities,” she wrote. Jacobs argued that urban renewal-tearing down old neighborhoods to build housing developments in their place-was not the answer to the problem of urban slums. The book was highly influential, offering a radically different view from what city planners of the time put forward. This is the contentious charge of Critic Jane Jacobs in a new, passionately argued and well-documented book ( The Death and Life of Great American Cities), which has planners all shook up. Attached to the outmoded ideals of Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City and Le Corbusier’s Radiant City, they are creating a future wilderness of standardized, monotonous never-never lands. planners and redevelopers, in trying to save U.S. ![]()
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