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What do towns, suburbs, and imaginary dream cities have in common? How do they differ from great cities?
Discuss how activism informs Jacobs’s approach to urbanism.
What is “the sidewalk ballet?” Discuss Jacobs’s use of the phrase to structure her account of a typical day on New York City’s Hudson Street.