In honour of her birthday, Sandy Ikeda explores the ideas of Jane Jacobs and reflects on how her thinking on urban centres is still relevant today.
References from The Curious Task Episode 92 with Sandy Ikeda
- You can listen to Sandy Ikeda discuss “Why Can’t a City Be a Work of Art?” on The Curious Task here.
- A copy of Jane Jacob’s Death and Life of Great American Cities can be purchased from Amazon here. Some of her other works include The Economy of Cities (available here) and Systems of Survival (available here).
- For those who want to learn more about Austrian economics, our friends at the Frasier Institute have released an introduction to the subject here.
- You can read more about the thoughts Sandy Ikeda has on Urban Design and Social Complexity here.
