An Introduction to Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of American Cities

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JANE JACOBS ON THE WORLD’S FAIR “One heavy, grandiose monument after another was arranged in the exposition park, like frosted pastries on a tray, in a sort of squat, decorative forecast of Le Corbusier’s later repetitive ranks of towers in a park. This orgiastic assemblage of the rich and monumental captured the imagination of both planners and public. It gave impetus to a movement called the City Beautiful ... The aim of the City Beautiful was the City Monumental, modeled on the fair. City after city built its civic center or its cultural center. ... However they were arranged, the important part was that the monuments had been sorted out from the rest of the city, and assembled into the grandest effect thought possible, the whole being treated as a unit, in a separate and well-defined way.” (Death and Life, p. 24)
THE MALL, Washington, DC http://www.som.com/content.cfm/washington_mall_and_constitution_gardens Bicentenniel renovations, by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, 1976.
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