Jane Jacobs

摘要

At the age of 12, nose pressed to the window of the bus, a small, naughty girl from Scranton, Pennsylvania had her first sight of New York. There was no fanfare as she swept, on that day in 1928, out of the Holland Tunnel and into Wall Street at lunchtime, but in her mind there should have been. The density of the streets, the noise and the rush of people, astonished her. Though she did not live in New York until six years later, she had fallen in love with the complexity of city life.