[lbo-talk] A second read of Jane Jacobs

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Sep 2 19:05:01 PDT 2011


On 9/2/2011 8:47 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:

You can't step into the same book twice.

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And that's why doing it is always so much more satisfactory an experience than just stepping once. Or, in the case of Jacobs???

Actually, I think her book probably lost its punch after it had lost the original battle against Zoning. Zoning is so extensive now railing against it is archaic. It's too bad but...

Carrol

P.S. Every decade or two it seems there will be a book that gets a lot of intelligent and well-read people in a sweat of excitement -- and then fades into the distance. Meaning of Meaning (Richards O Ogden), Science and Sanity (Korzybski), Generation of Vipers and essay on Morals (Wylie), Empire, Zizek.



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