305 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 7 Feb \ parent \ on: Are you a foot person or a car person? earth
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- the book is actually about how "planning theory" is dead wrong about everything and her examples of good neighborhoods are those that lacked planning and were bottom-up
- Jacobs never went to college
- Jacobs has lived in big cities and everyone of her arguments so far is supported by that kind of direct empiricism
- I'm only a chapter in but she sounds like the Mises of Urban Planning
I suspect she'd argue that Detroit fell into a wasteland on top of losing most of its economic activity because it was excessively planned.