How to Fix Our Cities
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto
on 09.18.07

Photographer and artist Danny Lyon is flattered to be asked to help design a city; in the past this was the job of emperors and kings. While I have some qualms about his step one, many of his other suggestions make a lot of sense. The essay is from a new book "Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York" which we eagerly await. ::New York Times
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