Finished the first today, now halfway through the second. It’s quite a pairing. The Robinson book is a very readable account of how professional women in the UK gained acceptance from 1850-1950-ish, and the Jacobs one (written in 1961) takes no prisoners in her acerbic and brilliant criticism of paternalistic city planning that ignores the needs of actual people. It’s slightly of its time, but provides a lot of food for thought. City planners now are still making the same mistakes #books #women