Por Iñaki Urdanibia Decía Hans Mayer en su Walter Benjamin. El contemporáneo (Edicions Alfons el Magnánim-IVEI, Valencia, 1992): «El renombre de Walter Benjamin como crítico de la cultura del siglo XX, que para él se inició a mediados del XIX, … Seguir leyendo →

I recently finished rereading Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities. It wasn’t my first encounter with the book. I first read it in graduate school over 15 years ago. At the time, it was eye-opening. I wasn’t particularly familiar with the planning profession then, beyond a vague desire to make places better—a motivation that probably leads many people into the field. Having…