In honor of the 50th anniversary edition of Jane Jacobs’ influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Fortune on CNNMoney is republishing one of Jacobs’ earlier articles in which she laid out the case against modernist planners – and launched her career as an urbanist.
If the downtown of tomorrow looks like most of the redevelopment projects being planned for it today, it will end up a monumental bore. But downtown could be made lively and exciting — and it’s not too hard to find out how.
