Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦"Unknowingly or not, Sesame Street’s creators aligned themselves with the ideas of Jane Jacobs, whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities had become the bible for urbanists. Jacobs championed mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods over the bulldozing approach of planners like Robert Moses. She identified four conditions essential to vibrant city blocks—and Sesame Street embodies them all."
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Brian Gettler (@[email protected])
A wonderful recent 99 Percent Invisible episode. I obviously learned my urbanism from Sesame Street (and, without knowing it, Jane Jacobs). My neighborhood could use a little more sidewalk ballet, though fortunately we're not really plagued by Ronald Grump. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/649-u-is-for-urbanism/