The Jane Jacobs' exhibit at the Municipal Arts Society is excellent, both educational and remarkably well designed. In one particularly neat feature, there's a Lucite overlay in front of a window looking out onto the corner of 51st Street and Madison Avenue. They've put up markings on the overlay pointing out practical examples of Jacobs' four principles -- mixed uses, varied buildings, concentration, and frequent streets. I'd put up a picture of it, but all of my photos are stuck on my Mac Book whose AirPort has decided to take this Monday off.
Other highlights include snippy anti-Jacobs letters from Robert Moses and historian Louis Mumford, and a model of LOMEX (Lower Manhattan Expressway) that Jacobs fought against in the 60's.
