MM: Candidates Discuss, Honoring Legacies, and a Robert Moses/Jane Jacobs Opera
Decatur Metro | October 22, 2015 | 10:43 am- Candidates discuss diversity, improvements to city of Decatur [Decaturish]
- Honoring legacies: A Decatur family honors the past while looking to the future [Champion]
- Decorate Decatur going digital this year [Decatur Minute]
- Beltline’s Eastside Trail Extension Moves One Step Forward [Curbed]
- Atlanta’s best architecture: Center for Civil and Human Rights (SLIDESHOW) [ABC]
- The Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs Opera Is Almost Here [City Lab]
There are varying ideological perspectives concerning Jacobs.
Jacobs’s aesthetic insights can’t make up for her avoiding of class realities. Lambasting “planners” while ignoring the far more powerful real estate developers, Jacobs’s polemic has been turned against even her prized Greenwich Village neighborhood, a site of rapacious gentrification stretching back to the 1980s.