A review by hudikatz
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

4.0

This book is phenomenal. A badass libertarian city planner basically took shots at the biggest names ever in urban planning. She is anti-zoning and anti-density which is a weird line to toe. She says some racy stuff about diversity but you can tell she genuinely cares about poor people, even more-so than Progressive Era interventionists who tried to create cookie cutter cities that utterly FAILED. two word synopsis of her planning philosophy: trial+error.