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                                        July 1, 2006

   Jane Jacobs, in an interview by
   Stewart Brand:
                                                    JANE_JACOBS
   "I also think that people don't
   necessarily need the most dire things
   to inspire change. Fashion is quite
   important; it keeps us from doing the
   same thing all the time. Think how
   people got tired of Victorian fashions
   and all of a sudden they couldn't stand
   them anymore. They were ruthless about
   wiping them away."


   "This is about to happen, I think, with
   our present sprawl and suburbs. They're
   going out of fashion. I think all kinds
   of things will happen to them. Again,
   it isn't one fix or one change. I
   imagine that they will be thickened up
   to quite an extent. They'll be
   denser. Already, shopping centers are
   getting to be abandoned where there
   have been too many of them. The first
   thing to think of would be to bulldoze
   them and put something else there. But
   that's not obviously the best choice
   anymore. You think, what can you put in         It's time to homestead
   there that's different? Can you change          the parking fields...
   some of it to housing? Can you have
   some stores in it? I think that the
   suburbs will change quite a bit from
   new, and imaginative, uses of that
   kind."


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