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By Anna Kod\u00e9, Christina Shaman, Gabriel Blanco and Laura Salaberry\u2022<\/span>July 28, 2025<\/p>\n Recent episodes in Behind the Reporting<\/span><\/p>\n Show more videos from Behind the Reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: The Urban Design of Sesame Street By Anna Kod\u00e9, Christina Shaman, Gabriel Blanco and Laura Salaberry\u2022July 28, 2025 In the 1960s, the children\u2019s television show Sesame Street was being conceived at the same time that the urban design book \u201cThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u201d by Jane Jacobs was exploding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3694,6328,1276,2267],"class_list":{"0":"post-12686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-design","9":"tag-sesame","10":"tag-street","11":"tag-urban"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}In the 1960s, the children\u2019s television show Sesame Street was being conceived at the same time that the urban design book \u201cThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u201d by Jane Jacobs was exploding in popularity. Anna Kod\u00e9, a reporter for The New York Times, explains how some of the urban design principles outlined in the book show up throughout the show.<\/h2>\n