Tue September 27, 2016
Jane Jacobs and the Digital City Symposium
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In his otherwise dismissive New Yorker review of Jane Jacobs' 1962 Death and Life of Great American Cities, Lewis Mumford allowed that Jacobs represented "a new kind of 'expert,' very refreshing in current planning circles where minds unduly fascinated by computers carefully confine themselves to asking only the kind of question that computers can answer..."
On the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs' birth, please join the BCNM and SPUR to present a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence, historian of urban computing Jennifer Light, and Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka, moderated by BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux and SPUR Editorial Director Allison Arieff.
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On the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs' birth, please join the BCNM and SPUR to present a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence, historian of urban computing Jennifer Light, and Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka, moderated by BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux and SPUR Editorial Director Allison Arieff.
In his otherwise dismissive New Yorker review of Jane Jacobs' 1962 Death and Life of Great American Cities, Lewis Mumford allowed that Jacobs represented "a new kind of 'expert,' very refreshing in current planning circles where minds unduly fascinated by computers carefully confine themselves to asking only the kind of question that computers can answer..."
On the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs' birth, please join the BCNM and SPUR to present a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence, historian of urban computing Jennifer Light, and Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka, moderated by BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux and SPUR Editorial Director Allison Arieff.
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On the 100th anniversary of Jane Jacobs' birth, please join the BCNM and SPUR to present a conversation with Jane Jacobs scholar Peter Laurence, historian of urban computing Jennifer Light, and Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka, moderated by BCNM Director Nicholas de Monchaux and SPUR Editorial Director Allison Arieff.
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