Vital Little Plans - book launch
I don't believe Hatherley can have read Jacobs' book "The life and death of American Cities". Jacobs was extremely critical of Ebenezer Howard and the garden city idea as well as of Le Corbusier's vision. Her premise was much more based on observation of human behaviour and concerned with the building of local communities with diversity of shops, restaurants, convenience stores, creches, local community amenities all within easy walking distance of residential clusters. Howard and Corb envisioned something requiring urban sprawl or were in thrall to the motor car - walking, local encounters, meeting points were hardly their reference points. Jacobs is hugely relevant now in promoting local diversity and community integration. Professional planners and developers seem to forget these basics time and again unless they are truly concerned with place making as opposed to "quick buck" making.
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