![]() ![]() Of course that's very unreliability and caprice is a feature and not a bug. It resonates with some other minor classics in adjacent fields over the last sixty years which caution against the folly of the reductionist, disposition which sees top-down control as the only way of harnessing the networks and mitigating the caprice of unreliable, inconstant individuals. Anyone interested in how distributed networks should best be organised -or should be allowed to organise themselves - should read this, imaginative magnificent book. That its author, Jane Jacobs, had neither tertiary education nor experience in urban planning that she published it sixty years ago yet its prescriptions depict uncannily the high-modernist attitudes that persist today that Jacobs’ prescription, while superficially counterintuitive, is so visionary, pluralistic and brilliant. There is so much that is breathtaking about this book. The Death and Life of Great American Cities ![]()
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