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Posted by Fytton on Wed Jul 25 08:46:27 2007, in response to Re: Housing Projects Re: Jane Jacobs Re: Cross Manhattan expressway, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 24 23:28:15 2007. 'I didn't know they had such a thing!' [The Lower East Side Tenement Museum]Interesting - it is featured in guidebooks to NYC aimed at foreigners, but it is not known to a generally well-informed New Yorker. Isn't it always the way, people don't go to see features of their home town, yet they'll travel the world to see foreign sights. (No personal offence intended to anyone, by the way - we all do it.) Similarly, I read Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities before I had ever visited the USA yet some New Yorkers here had never heard of the book. It became a seminal text on city planning, read throughout the world, despite the fact that Jane Jacobs (who died last year) was not a professional city planner, more a community activist. |
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