A lengthy analysis of city-planning failures up to the 1960s with plenty of lessons for today and beyond. So the book takes on Robert Moses and his ideology more than anything, but also targets the ways in which planning had gotten both ossified (received wisdom) and also reactive (attempting to replicate the irreplicatable). Jacobs takes the question of what makes a successful city and turns it around as a form of analysis, rather than seeking to create rules and principles. What this means is that […]