Ignoring my desire for a new take on Jacobs’ plainly stated conditions for urban diversity, I accepted the case for 100 rules at face value. After all, an annotated list with its Twitter-like format lends itself to contemporary dissemination.
But do these urban rules hold up for a biased reader who has lived and works in SoHo? I like lists as much as anyone and appreciate the allure of a number, a title, a small illustration, and a couple of paragraphs on each entry. The problem is that the titles tend to influence the reading of each rule.
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