Comments on: Jane Jacobs’ Is Planetizen’s Top Urban Planner, Shoup Fifteenth http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/15/jane-jacobs-is-planetizens-top-urban-planner-shoup-fifteenth/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DJB http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/15/jane-jacobs-is-planetizens-top-urban-planner-shoup-fifteenth/comment-page-1/#comment-31861 DJB Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:18:12 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=11381#comment-31861 @ Gary I had a similar experience. JJ is awesome. All the more so since she wrote during urban renewal, the freeway boom, and massive postwar suburbanization. It might be a self-perpetuating thing though since I found out about her on Planetizen :) @ Gary

I had a similar experience. JJ is awesome. All the more so since she wrote during urban renewal, the freeway boom, and massive postwar suburbanization. It might be a self-perpetuating thing though since I found out about her on Planetizen :)

]]> By: Erik G. http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/15/jane-jacobs-is-planetizens-top-urban-planner-shoup-fifteenth/comment-page-1/#comment-31791 Erik G. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:28:41 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=11381#comment-31791 Wait a minute... Le Corbusier, Robert Moses and Henry Ford are all on that list. All three are destroyers, not to be emulated of commemorated. And Ford thought Hitler was swell. Wait a minute…

Le Corbusier, Robert Moses and Henry Ford are all on that list.

All three are destroyers, not to be emulated of commemorated.

And Ford thought Hitler was swell.

]]> By: Gary Kavanagh http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/09/15/jane-jacobs-is-planetizens-top-urban-planner-shoup-fifteenth/comment-page-1/#comment-31721 Gary Kavanagh Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:45:16 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=11381#comment-31721 Reading Jane Jacob's Death And Life of Great American Cities is what planted the bug of really thinking about urban spaces in my brain. I can no longer walk down any street without considering the relative success or failure of the street and how it might be bettered by the principles of Jane Jacobs. I wish it were required reading for any person in a position of power over our cities. Reading Jane Jacob’s Death And Life of Great American Cities is what planted the bug of really thinking about urban spaces in my brain. I can no longer walk down any street without considering the relative success or failure of the street and how it might be bettered by the principles of Jane Jacobs. I wish it were required reading for any person in a position of power over our cities.

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