This article originally ran for Strong Towns I first fell in love with cities from reading Jane Jacobs’ book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I especially resonated with her description of city streets as a “ballet,” finding it to be a delightfully accurate analogy for the kind of street life I experienced […]
The processes that drive community engagement in our cities are broken, so most of us avoid them. They take up a lot of time, involve a dizzying amount of coordination, require divine measures of patience and rarely lead to the satisfaction of seeing something worthwhile accomplished in a quick and sustainable fashion. Like most political […]