A wonderful Sesame Street song and video about The Subway on YouTube/ (via Kottke.org)
Curbed is having a contest for the most Jane Jacobs like neighborhood and there is a flickr pool for it. A site called Polis is co-sponsoring the contest (there are no prizes) and writes this:
"What are Jacobsian street characteristics, you ask? She had four: 1. mixed primary uses, 2. short blocks, 3. old buildings (i.e. cheap space, although nowdays, that is hardly the same thing), 4. high density. To this I would add, 5. infill redevelopment."
Read an excerpt (from Chapter 2, The uses of sidewalks: safety) from The Death and Life of Great American Cities.