Interesting essay on the "greening" of urban area by Jane Jacobs, who wrote The Death & Life of Great American Cities, a book that I own but have only read a third. She brings up a point about corporations moving to the suburbs & maximizing the contact between people within a building & minimizing the "unplanned" contact outside. It seems to me that the suburbs already does that to other parts of people's lives. Focusing all of peoples attentions to the TV or internet in the home or the cell-phone or DVD player in the car, minimizes that chances that they might interact with strangers or even their neighbors (one in the same?). Maybe it's because I have no love for the suburbs.
I reread the introduction to No Logo today while enjoying one-half of a veggie skillet at Huck Finn. A small coincidence is that both Jane Jacobs & Naomi Klein live in Toronto.
Posted by Rob at May 16, 2004 11:24 PM | TrackBack