new video loaded: The Urban Design of Sesame Street
By Anna Kodé, Christina Shaman, Gabriel Blanco and Laura Salaberry•July 28, 2025
In the 1960s, the children’s television show Sesame Street was being conceived at the same time that the urban design book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs was exploding in popularity. Anna Kodé, a reporter for The New York Times, explains how some of the urban design principles outlined in the book show up throughout the show.
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