Enough With Jane Jacobs Already! (Says A Nonprofit Developer)

“Jacobs had a tendency toward sweeping conclusions based on anecdotal information, and some of them were overblown and/or oblivious to the facts. Perhaps most graphically, Jacobs predicted that the grand arts center planned for the Upper West Side of Manhattan would fail. But Lincoln Center turned out to be a great success … More revealingly, the Greenwich Village she held out as a model for city life has become some of the highest-priced real estate in New York City.”