> Death and Life of Great American Cities is now town planning 101. And we're already feeling some of the big problems from that now. Likely more will occur in

> Death and Life of Great American Cities is now town planning 101. And we're already feeling some of the big problems from that now. Likely more will occur in the next 10-20 years. Jane Jacobs isn't a magical perfect bible for cities -- her ideas (as practiced in every major US city today) are in part responsible for generating an explosion in housing costs, a decrease in the quality of urban transportation, and some major gentrification + displacement of residents. I don't fault her for this -- her ideas were great and relevant for decades -- but urban planners today are blindly following her every word as if it's gospel, and ignoring the many bad side effects her ideas, when left unchecked for so long, are now causing. http://www.governing.com/topics/economic-dev/is-it-time-to-retire-jane-jacobs-vision-city.html http://www.governing.com/topics/economic-dev/is-it-time-to-r...