Jane Jacobs, the urban observer who helped blow away the cobwebs of urban planning dogma so that we could see what really makes a city work, passed away in April. My Urban Tulsa Weekly column last week was a salute to Jane Jacobs, highlighting three lessons from her landmark 1960 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, one of my favorite books.
Also of note last week: Jamie Pierson's first column for UTW, in which she recalls a suburban Tulsa upbringing, gives thanks for her midtown-based young adulthood, and gives a tongue-in-cheek call for deannexing everything south of I-44.
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After reading the Pierson article I hope she gets her wish so I don't have to listen to the jealous vitriol of mid town "progressives" who choke in smug and smell their own farts.
Posted by Joseph Wallis | June 16, 2006 8:31 AM
Posted on June 16, 2006 08:31