It's been fifty years since Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities was released. American Conservative rounded up experts to weigh in on her legacy. William Lind blames our broken cities on the streetcar lines that were replaced with buses:
Most people like riding streetcars, but almost no one likes riding a bus. The substitution of buses for electric streetcars drove most former streetcar riders to drive. When people took the streetcar to town — and every American city or town with 5,000 or more people once had streetcars — they also spent a lot of time on Jane Jacobs’ all-important sidewalks.
(Image: Sprawl by Vasco Mourao)
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