🔍 A writer waxes poetic about the "legendary" Jane Jacobs, whose most notable accomplishment was foiling the evil urban overlord, Robert Moses. Meanwhile, Hollywood churns out an animated flick featuring Jacobs as New York's #superheroine, because nothing screams intellectual discourse like a cartoon battle scene. 🍿🙄
https://salmagundi.skidmore.edu/articles/75-on-jane-jacobs #JaneJacobs #UrbanPlanning #HollywoodAnimation #RobertMoses #IntellectualDiscourse #HackerNews #ngated