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Jane Jacobs video

The CBC has a clip of Jane Jacobs talking about Toronto and Montreal from 1969. In it, she makes the distinction between the two urban organizational forces at work in Toronto, a sort of "civil schizophrenia": the vernacular spirit ("full of fun") and the official spirit ("stamp out fun"). I also found a video on YouTube about Robert Moses and his difficulties with Ms. Jacobs which concludes with a cheeky update of Arnold Newman's iconic photo of Moses.

Jane Jacobs Robert Moses

By Jason Kottke    May 1, 2009 at 06:48 pm    cities   Jane Jacobs   montreal   NYC   robertmoses   toronto   video

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