This week, I use my column to describe an excellent walk I took down Broadway St. in Manhattan, from 80th St. on the Upper West Side (where I fortified myself with a lox bagel and knish at Zabar’s) to the Staten Island ferry. It was the day after Jane Jacobs died, and I wanted to honor her memory by thinking about how the most famous city in the U.S. is put together. What’s great about Jacobs, aside from the fact that she wrote about the social power of cities — a favorite topic of mine — was that she wasn’t some kind of academically-trained “expert.” She was a smart person with great ideas who didn’t need no stinkin’ credentials to profoundly influence urban designers for years to come.

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