[avn2109]

I have always thought that the West Village is so gentrified today because it's essentially one-of-a-kind. I.e. Jane Jacobs' ideas were (almost) not implemented completely in any other neighborhood in America, so everyone in the country who wants to live like that is forced to compete on price for the half mile square around Christopher street or what have you. But I wouldn't say the vibrance and liveliness has been "eradicated;" it's still pretty peppy all day and most of the night.

And I'm not sure it's fair to characterize SF's current malaise as the endpoint of Jacobs' ideas. IIRC nowhere her oeuvre is there an opposition to new construction---in fact, just the opposite. For instance, near the bottom of page 216 of the 1961 edition [0], she is pretty unequivocal that she is in favor of new construction, just not all at one time and place.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=P_bPTgOoBYkC&lpg=PP1&dq=de...