The Death and Life of Great American Cities — The Hidden Order of Urban Life
What if the apparent disorder of a successful city is actually evidence that a complex system is working?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs as our lens, this episode investigates why attempts to impose simplified order on cities can disrupt the social and economic relationships that make neighborhoods function.
Jacobs argues that urban vitality depends on close-grained diversity: mixtures of uses, short blocks, buildings of different ages, sufficient concentrations of people, active…
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