Jennifer Hoch
The new urban renewers: Getting past the Jacobs-Moses paradigm
For the last few decades, it has been taken as a given by urban planners that “urban renewal,” the approach to planning in the 1950s and early '60s that resulted in bulldozed neighborhoods, modern public housing projects, and lots of urban highways, was a bad way to go about building a city. It has been taken as a given that a better way to go about it is to make the streets better for people and worse for cars, and encourage “mixed-use” development, among other things. More
