If you get out and walk, you see all sorts of other clues. Why is the hub of downtown such a mixture of things? Why do office workers on New York’s handsome Park Avenue turn off to Lexington or Madison Avenue at the first corner they reach? Why is a good steak house usually in an old building? Why are short blocks apt to be busier than long ones?
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Jane Jacobs is still amazing and right, 50 years later.
Downtown is for People (Fortune Classic, 1958) - Fortune Features
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