Jane Jacobs’ economic development thinking was not a naive localism as Alter describes. It also wasn’t Sewell’s top-down example — growing from first meeting local demand. 1/2
— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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She was interested e.g in how, in Japan, a complex network of small scale shops maintaining and repairing imported bicycles developed into the expertise that allowed it to replace imported bikes w/ Japanese designed and built bikes and from there export high quality world-beater bikes globally. 2/2
— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) October 10, 2026 at 11:04 AM