![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of urban and suburban America she refers to sweepingly as “The Great Blight of Dullness.” She considers and praises certain other successfully rejuvenated neighborhoods within great American cities, such as Boston’s North End, Chicago’s Back-of-the-Yards, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.īut virtually all other cities she ignores or – like Los Angeles – actively denigrates. She loves her Greenwich Village circa 1960 ( The Death and Life was first published in 1961), and she returns again and again to the ways in which her diverse neighborhood outshines anywhere else. If there’s any obvious critique of Jane Jacobs, she’s what the sports fan world calls a serious homer. “Homer.” If you’ve heard this song, you know what we mean. ![]()
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