“Too many people today claim they plan according to Jacobs’ precepts while embracing Robert Moses’ pursuit of big, bold visions. Jacobs, of course, thought big too, but in a different way from Moses – not big demolition and car-based projects but big physical and social infrastructure like mass transit and library systems or big urban networks of smaller components like interconnected neighborhoods.”

Read the entire article at The Atlantic Cities:  Jane Jacobs and the Power of Women Planners.

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