Comments on: Communities Matter: The Evolutionary Reason

By: Joeventures

Joeventures — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:14:28 +0000

I would turn WWJJD into a bumper sticker, but that would be highly ironic.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:22:34 +0000

Amen. As yourself: WWJJD? (What would Jane Jacobs Do?)

By: GAK

GAK — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:05:55 +0000

Re-posting Philip Michaels’ comments from the NPR site because they are my exact thoughts:

It’s great to see research begin to validate Jane Jacobs’ ideas about how cities fit into our lives. She used the work of historians and archeologists to show that cities are the basis of our economic advancement. Apparently, we did not rise out of some self-sufficient pastoral ideal, instead our advances came from cooperatively solving problems in diverse urban environments. Imagine what an affect (sic) that notion would have on many of our current public policy debates.

By: sitting pugs

sitting pugs — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:14:48 +0000

I get the feelin’ that if one were reading this article for an undergraduate of high school history class, there’d be that one student to mutter under his/her breath, “well duuuhhhh.”

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