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On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, one of the most influential studies of the city in recent years, sociologist Sharon Zukin surveys the contemporary American cityscape. She focuses on her own city, New York, and concludes that it has “lost its soul”.https://dialogue.earth/content/uploads/2024/04/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png1200675