Anonymous
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i'm not saying people shouldn't live like suburbanites if they're paying for it, just that it doesn't work at high population densities, and it's been tried before, and jacobs objections aren't that it doesn't fit with her aesthetics and preferences, it's that it doesn't work and leads to crime and other social problems. my question really was "have you read jane jacobs lately" to see if you had responses about the pragmatics of past failures, when what you propose doesn't seem that different
I may have to, although I suspect “it’s been tried before” includes “…and they botched it”.
(I did read about the Hulme Crescents, although that may not be close to what you have in mind.)
But as for right now, I’m focusing on my (largely unrelated to urban planning) fiction writing, and for reading, I have that book by LKY arriving soon. (I don’t actually read that much. I’m not really a good person, you see.)