translate English to French: Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950's, 1960s, and early 1970s. The Greenwich Village of the 1950's and 1960's was at the center of Jane Jacobs 's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities , which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.
Dans les années 1950 , la Beat generation y laisse son empreinte, et de nombreux chanteur s de la scène folk se produisent dans des cafés du quartier, à l'exemple de Bob Dylan .