Writer OnCities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities is the classic.
Interviewed by JamesHowardKunstler : https://web.archive.org/web/20050204184035/http://www.kunstler.com/mags_jacobs1.htm
Another summary : http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html
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