EVEN HER FOOTNOTES ARE COOL. Jane Jacobs on one problem with paternalism: “The late Marshall Shafer, the brilliant U.S. Public Health Service official who developed the federal program of hospital construction aid and administered it for many eyars, kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. It said, ‘A fool can put on his own clothes better than a wise man can do it for him.'” (Footnote, page 324, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.)


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