The Death and Life of Great American CitiesPimlico, 2000 - 474 من الصفحات Conventional city planning holds that cities decline because they are blighted by over-crowding, byt old buildings and narrow streets, and by mixtures of commercial and residential use. Crowded neighbourhoods, it is generally stated, breed apathy and crime, discourage investment and contaminate the areas around them. The response of city planners is to tear the old neighbourhoods down, scatter their inhabitants, lay out super-blocks, and rebuild the area according to an integrated plan, with the frequent result that the crime rate rises still higher, the new neighbourhood is more lifeless than the old one, and the surrounding areas deteriotate even more, until the whole city is affected. In this groundbreaking study, Jane Jacobs offers a real alternative to conventional city planning that we have had in this century. Herself a city dweller, she asks what makes cities work, why are some neighbourhoods full of things to do and see and others dul, why is the crime rate soaring in public housing developments, and why are some of the areas condemned as slums so much more safe, stable and congenial? |
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... densities for New York ; in most parts of the East Bronx , densities are well below the whole city averages . ( New York's average dwelling density is 55 units per net residential acre . ) However , it will not do to jump to the ...
... densities for New York ; in most parts of the East Bronx , densities are well below the whole city averages . ( New York's average dwelling density is 55 units per net residential acre . ) However , it will not do to jump to the ...
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... densities may be even more depressing and destructive than overcrowding at high densities , because at low densities there is less public life as a diversion and escape , and as a means , too , for fighting back politically at ...
... densities may be even more depressing and destructive than overcrowding at high densities , because at low densities there is less public life as a diversion and escape , and as a means , too , for fighting back politically at ...
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... densities . The Back - of - the - Yards is grad- ually raising its densities , to take care of the district population's natural increase . To increase densities gradually , as is being done here , is by no means undercutting this ...
... densities . The Back - of - the - Yards is grad- ually raising its densities , to take care of the district population's natural increase . To increase densities gradually , as is being done here , is by no means undercutting this ...
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