Non-Design: Architecture, Liberalism and the Market: by Anthony Fontenot, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, 376 pages.

But Fontenot's careful interrogation of Jacobs' work leaves little doubt regarding its tight correlation to Hayek's ideas. Despite his neutral tone, Fontenot does here much more than "investigate [the philosophy of non-design's] relationship with design theory": the book de-naturalizes and hence politicizes architecture and urbanism by exposing an ideological grounding that has often been obscured if not thoroughly veiled. More than sixty years after the publication of I The Death and Life of Great American Cities i , the influence of the book and its author Jane Jacobs has not waned. [Extracted from the article]

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