James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · May 28 I think about this quote a lot. It's from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, and was chosen by Jane Jacobs to be the epigraph for her wonderful book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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I still think, btw, that Jacobs should be mandatory reading for every new civil servant, special adviser, and politician. The machine conception of society runs so deep it would be hard to overstate.