Complex Adaptive Cities
Complex adaptive systems are hard to understand. Messy and complicated, they cannot be broken down into smaller bits. It would be easier to ignore them, or simply leave them as mysteries. But given …
Jane Jacobs
Are Cities More Innovative?
Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: “The larger a city, the greater the variety of its manufacturing, and also the greater both the number and the proportion of its small …
A Conversation With Jane Jacobs
Fascinating interview with Jane Jacobs. Jacobs is the author of one of the most important books to be written on American urban life. EW: You wrote your 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American …