Cities Are Good For You' by Leo Hollis

... ideas of Jane Jacobs, the famed activist and writer whose description of the "Ballet of Hudson Street" in Greenwich Village convinced Hollis that "the street is the essential, energetic measure of the life of the city." Against this, Hollis is ...

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