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Four Schools of Urbanism After Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs looms large over urbanist discourse, but she died in 2006. The cities being built today respond to very different ideas. This episode maps the four major schools of thought that actually drive modern city planning: the supply-side YIMBYs (Glaeser, filtering theory), the New Urbanists (Duany, Speck, walkability), the Just City theorists (Lefebvre, Harvey, right to the city), and the technocratic smart city school (Batty, Townsend, data-driven optimization). We explore the empirical fault lines, the strange political bedfellows, and why the Jacobs-versus-Moses frame no longer gives…
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