The Sky Line is a column in the New Yorker magazine written by eminent personalities in the field of architecture, planning and urbanism. KEEPING THE MIDDLE OF THE BLOCK OPEN PROVIDES DUAL ASPECT FOR HOUSES AND THE MAIN ORIENTATION FOR REAR APARTMENTS (Apple Maps image).ġ| Life and Times in New York City in the 1950s IT PROVIDES FAMLY OUTDOOR SPACE WHERE CHILDREN MIGHT PRETEND TO BE ARCHAEOLOGISTS DIGGING FOR BONES. HOUSE ON 555 HUDSON STREET (red pin): THE BACK YARD FORMS PART OF THE BLOCK’S GREEN MIDDLE FILLED WITH ENORMOUS TREES. How was Jacobs’s manifesto, bound in a small yellow jacket, received by the establishment media and the establishment planning profession? Fifty-six years later we take another look. Famed New Yorker columnist and liberal arts critic Lewis Mumford took up his pen to review-and criticize-the epoch making little yellow book by architecture journalist and Greenwich Village activist Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of the Great American Cities. Do towers make or break neighbourhoods? Must we chose between either building ‘hyper’ density, or making ‘good’ places? Can only ‘big’ cities be ‘great’ cities? Will Capitalism trump the issue of human scale, or do we possess the strength to resist the its siren call? On 1 December 1962 these issues played across the cover and pages of the Christmas edition of the hip, the savvy, the culturally inured New Yorker magazine.
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