99% Invisible

For over half a century, millions of children have learned their ABCs and 123s from Sesame Street, but the beloved show has been teaching something else entirely… a quiet lesson in what makes a great neighborhood. Sesame Street isn’t just entertainment, it’s a blueprint for urban utopia. Unknowingly or not, Sesame Street’s creators aligned themselves with the ideas of Jane Jacobs; she identified four conditions essential to vibrant city blocks—and Sesame Street embodies them all.

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