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What Jane Jacobs Got Wrong About Cities
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The peerless urban theorist misunderstood the suburbs and failed to see how gentrification would make urban neighborhoods unaffordable to all but the rich.
Joel Kotkin
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Aug. 1 2015
10:00PM EDT
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