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Rob Adams

Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne 1985– edited by Kim Dovey, Rob Adams, and Ronald Jones

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October 2018, no. 405

In her influential 1961 text The Death and Life of Great American Cities, American-Canadian urban activist Jane Jacobs famously characterised the complex order of a successful city as ‘an intricate ballet’. The ‘dance’ of a thriving city sidewalk, says Jacobs, bucks trends of uniformity and repetition in favour of improvisation, movement, and change.

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