Cities for people: discovering what makes cities enjoyable
8 min readNov 24, 2020
In the mid century a few notable people started to ask serious questions and looked around to understand how cities actually worked. One of them was Jane Jacobs. She was a journalist, living in the upper west side in New York and her book “The life and death of American cities” became an instant classic. In this book she describes what she sees from her window and from walking around in…