The header image for our site is a reproduction of an advertisement for Jacobs’ book that was published in The New York Times in 1961:
1961 ad for Jane Jacobs’ book that ran in The New York Times
This post discusses the image used for the eportfolio header and also serves as an intro to your reading for February 16, Jane Jacobs’ book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Parts of this post are modified excerpts of a paper that I wrote for a graduate seminar titled “Mid-Century Narratives,” and I’m super excited to get to share some of my research. This post first addresses the advertisement’s line, “The city planners are ravaging our cities” followed by a comparison between the ideas of Jane Jacobs and her former mentor, then-architectural critic for theNew Yorker, Lewis Mumford.
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