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Jane Jacobs, the first person to check the utopian drift of city redevelopment has died in Toronto. Most us on this site who espouse good urbanism, incremental growth, intensive and mixed use preference, ground floor retail etc, have her to thank.
Her seminal book Death and Life of the Great American Cities was an inspiration when I first read it as it brouhgt together a lot of notions I had floating round my noggin. I was only 12 adn the basic love of the city as she described it utterly inspired me.
Take a look at the piece we have put on the downtown website
http://www.downtownliverpool.org
If you haven't read any of her stuff then be sure to get hold of a book or two over the weekend?
Her seminal book Death and Life of the Great American Cities was an inspiration when I first read it as it brouhgt together a lot of notions I had floating round my noggin. I was only 12 adn the basic love of the city as she described it utterly inspired me.
Take a look at the piece we have put on the downtown website
http://www.downtownliverpool.org
If you haven't read any of her stuff then be sure to get hold of a book or two over the weekend?