The urban design of Sesame Street


New loaded video: The urban design of Sesame Street

By Anna Kodé, Christina Shaman, Gabriel Blanco and Laura Salaberry

In the 1960s, the Sesame Street children's television program was being conceived at the same time as the urban design book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs was exploiting in popularity. Anna Kodé, a New York Times reporter, explains how some of the urban design principles appear in the book throughout the show.

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