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Jane Jacobs: The death and life of great American cities (1992, Vintage Books)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized …

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Great book. Very little of what she wrote over a half-century ago is not still applicable to cities today. Not sure so much about the retailing industry because it's changed so much even in the last 10-15 years. Most of the rest of it -- border vacuums, gray zones in cities -- all still plague cities.

Good book and I think it puts me in the right state for my next classes.