The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We will discuss a classic book about urbanism, the 1961 book that inspired the New Urbanism movement of the 1980s. It was a warning to city leaders in the 1960s that they were destroying their cities under the guise of rescuing them, and a detailed alternative approach that was based on streets, neighborhoods and the city as a whole.

Jane Jacobs was a writer who lived in New York and Toronto. She died in 2006.

We will look for lessons that this classic book holds for Urban Atlanta today.