for those of my viewers who have read jane jacobs. this is the jane jacobs in you. this is not the best use of land to demolish something and put the most economically viable or most profitable thing on that land. philadelphia does bifurcate. there are areas of philadelphia that look like the finest area of america and then it's got areas where nothing happens. story. if you go back to the 1970s where i indicate in the books that i've written, that is when the turning point came, away from the robert moses demolition at all costs, clear the neighborhoods, build new public housing, new highways and basically hollowing out the city. the turn around started when people organically started moving back to neighborhoods. rebuilding those neighborhoods. defying the expertise of all the people who said the other way was the better way. this was when the jane jacobs approach took hold in a new way. and today we hear too much of the kind of rhetoric and programming that we heard in an earlier time. the big projects, philadelphia's waterfront may be fine. but it's not going to

that is jane jacobs, riding on a bicycle, where i happened to grow up. the village wasn't like most urban neighborhoods. i was reminded the other day the famous german restaurant on union square. an open erica faye. but the mayor shut it down as affront to public morals. it encouraged men and women to loiter in the streets and only the dest tude and depraved loitered in the street. it closed in 1980 because nobody went to the square any longer that it had become so blighted. the romance of new yorkers playing stick ball and running through the showers the fact that while there were great hubs of street life on the lower east side and times square and elsewhere, streets were corridor, s and not where the middle class dwelled. public spaces were parks handed down by authorities like robert moses that created 800 of them in new york. today we would regard his park sociologist like william white to show how able might like to use parks and streets, to index what makes them friendly places. this is not william white, but this is bryant park. this is bryant pa

that is jane jacobs on her bicycle. happened to grow up, the west village. the village was not like most urban neighborhoods. the famous german restaurant on union square during the middle of the last century had an open air cafÉ. that mayor laguardia shut it down as an affront to public morals. it encouraged men and women to loiter in the streets and only the destitute and depraved wood or in the streets. the restaurant closed in the 1980's because nobody went to union square and longer. the romance of the new yorkers hanging out on their stoops and children playing stickball belies the fact that while there were hugs of street life on the lower east side, streets were corridors and not where the middle class dwelt. they were not public spaces. public spaces were parks handed down by authorities like robert moses, who created nearly 800 of them. today we would regard robert moses's park program as a socialist. it was the contribution of sociologists like william white to show how able might like to use parks and streets, to index what makes them friendly p

that is jane jacobs, riding on a bicycle, where i happened to grow up. the village wasn't like most urban neighborhoods. i was reminded the other day the famous german restaurant on union square. an open erica faye. but the mayor shut it down as affront to public morals. it encouraged men and women to loiter in the streets and only the dest tude and depraved loitered in the street. it closed in 1980 because nobody went to the square any longer that it had become so blighted. the romance of new yorkers playing stick ball and running through the showers the fact that while there were great hubs of street life on the lower east side and times square and elsewhere, streets were corridor, s and not where the middle class dwelled. public spaces were parks handed down by authorities like robert moses that created 800 of them in new york. today we would regard his park sociologist like william white to show how able might like to use parks and streets, to index what makes them friendly places. this is not william white, but this is bryant park. this is bryant pa