Nice description of "Life on the Street" in New Haven (link fixed)

Audubon Street, New Haven. Photo: Paul Bass, New Haven Independent.
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Ken Firestone called my attention to a bad link here. Sorry. Usually I catch these mistakes of mine before you see them. Thanks.
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The New Haven Independent (alternative blog newspaper with independent reporting) has a kind of obituary of Jane Jacobs via a written and pictorial essay of Audubon Street in New Haven, "Jane Jacobs Spotted on Audubon Street," how an arts cluster developed, and how the design and features along the blocks between illustrate how to develop, strengthen, and support life on the street. From the article:

Jacobs discovered what makes cities work by sitting on a sidewalk and just watching who walks where and does what with whom.

If she had been sitting Wednesday afternoon on the sidewalk on the block of Audubon Street between Orange and Whitney, which community institutions gradually rebuilt into an urban arts mecca over the past three decades, Jacobs would have certainly been pleased. She would have seen her spirit living on.

She would have seen people of all ages and races, from seniors to little kids and in between, bumping shoulders. She would have seen families (photo above) enjoying an outdoor snack by Koffee?, one of two joints on the block with outdoor tables. She would have seen the banners of arts and other community organizations flying in the air (other photo above.)

There are many other nice photos.

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