{"id":925,"date":"2006-04-25T19:29:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T00:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/death-life-of-great-american-urban-theorists\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T19:29:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T00:29:14","slug":"death-life-of-great-american-urban-theorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/death-life-of-great-american-urban-theorists","title":{"rendered":"Death & Life of Great American Urban Theorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jane Jacobs died today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which means that the next book I start will be Robert Caro’s mammoth biography of Robert Moses, Power Broker<\/a>. You’ve been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Jacobs died today. Which means that the next book I start will be Robert Caro’s mammoth biography of Robert Moses, Power Broker. You’ve been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-eV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4518,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/three-more-years","url_meta":{"origin":925,"position":0},"title":"Three More Years!","author":"Gil","date":"October 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a 35-minute video of Charlie Rose's interview with Robert Caro last April, at the end of which Mr. Caro mentions that the final volume of his LBJ biography won't be published for another three years. That should give you enough time to read The Power Broker, his phenomenal biography\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0394720245","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":927,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-on-jacobs","url_meta":{"origin":925,"position":1},"title":"More on Jacobs","author":"Gil","date":"April 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Witold Rybczynski at Slate has a brief appreciation of Jane Jacobs's work. He points out that Jacobs largely ignored the suburbs, which is putting it mildly. In her best-known book, she considers them solely as a negative, the way most urban theorists do. Which reminds me that I need to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14702,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-450-robert-mccrum","url_meta":{"origin":925,"position":2},"title":"Episode 450 – Robert McCrum","author":"Gil","date":"September 7, 2021","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 450: Robert McCrum \"People should be free to do Shakespeare anyway they like: in 5 minutes, 5 seconds, 5 days, 5 hours, underwater, in a desert, on a mountain. It'll always work; he's indestructible, in that sense.\" With his new book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "0-fer"","block_context":{"text":"0-fer","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/0-fer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccrumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C569&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccrumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C569&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccrumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C569&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccrumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C569&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccrumcomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C569&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10281,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-213-sarah-williams-goldhagen","url_meta":{"origin":925,"position":3},"title":"Episode 213 – Sarah Williams Goldhagen","author":"Gil","date":"April 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Virtual Memories Show 213: Sarah Williams Goldhagen \"The built environment is not inert. It's an active agent in the shaping of people's lives.\" Why are our buildings crushing our quality of life? Sarah Williams Goldhagen joins the show to talk about her new book, Welcome to Your World (Harper),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/swgoldhagencomp.jpg?fit=1200%2C596&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1310,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-city-and-a-man","url_meta":{"origin":925,"position":4},"title":"The City and a Man","author":"Gil","date":"January 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The links are going to go dead in a few days, so if you're interested in Robert Moses, historical revisionism and crypto-Oedipal conflicts, and the landscape of New York (and who isn't?), you need to check out these two articles from the NYObserver and the NYTimes. First, though, you should\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=virtualmemories-20&l=as2&o=1&a=%200394720245","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5629,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-october-8-2010","url_meta":{"origin":925,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: October 8, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"October 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a great week! Don't forget to tip your waitress! Okay, we start off with another (horrifying) Required Reading: exploding the notion of \"Breast Cancer Awareness month\". * * * Biological class warfare . . . in Brooklyn! * * * How to make Mariah Carey tasteful. * *\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Pharmaceuticals"","block_context":{"text":"Pharmaceuticals","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business\/pharmaceuticals"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}