https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/02/09/no-bombs-fell-on-this-american-city/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:35:56 -0400<![CDATA[Back in 1995, Theodore Dalrymple toured one of England&#8217;s public housing projects. He arrived independently at many of the same conclusions about England&#8217;s public housing that Jane Jacobs did in the mid-1960s regarding America&#8217;s then still-burgeoning urban renewal projects, in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities.  It&#8217;s probably not all that surprising that most of her findings translate all too well across the Atlantic.]]>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:15:06 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/02/09/no-bombs-fell-on-this-american-city-n253434