How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities | Saskia Sassen | Cities | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/04/jane-jacobs-100th-birthday-saskia-sassen
I first met Jane Jacobs in the early 90s. She was sitting in the front row of a large Toronto auditorium as I delivered a one-hour lecture. I did not know who she was.
When I was done, the first hand up – sharply so – belonged to this elderly person. How wonderful, I thought, a citizen who has never stopped being engaged. What came out of her mouth, though, was one of the sharpest critiques of my way of analysing the city that I’d ever heard – and probably ever will.