Friction, Distance, Incidental Activities

Jane Jacobs clarified a thought I've had for years

I’m finally reading Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and yes, it’s as good as it’s reputed to be. It’s extremely dense with insights and “Oh wow, that’s how that works” sentences, so much so that I’ll need to read it again to pull out and think further on a lot of little bits. Jacobs understood cities because she seems to have …