For this month’s book club, Jerusalem Demsas and Matt Yglesias read The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the 1961 classic that changed how everyone thinks about neighborhoods. Rereading it as YIMBYs, they find a book that’s right about what makes a street feel alive and wrong about almost everything that followed: Jacobs’s push to devolve power …
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