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As the country slips through the current downturn, thoughts turn to the worst. "What if I get laid off?"
Jane Jacobs died two years ago last week, but if she’d lived, and visited me in my neighborhood in Washington, D.C., I’d like to think she might have written a book about it.
I moved to Columbia Heights, smack dab in the geographic center of the District of Columbia, last fall as I was reading Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. For me, these two events are indelibly twinned, impossible to stop from informing each other. As I got further and further into the book, it seemed that the Jacobian dramas spelled out so plainly in Death and Life were being reenacted outside my front stoop just for my benefit.
This page contains all entries posted to AIArchitect in May 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.
April 2008 is the previous archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.