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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... locality develops . It is taken up in what amounts to the economic equivalent of a fad . The winners in the competition for space will represent only a narrow segment of the many uses that together created success . Whichever one or few ...
... locality develops . It is taken up in what amounts to the economic equivalent of a fad . The winners in the competition for space will represent only a narrow segment of the many uses that together created success . Whichever one or few ...
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... locality starts to act like an ' idiot ' cell is not hard to discover . Anyone intimate with an outstand- ingly successful city district knows when this qualitative turn is in process of occurring . Those who use the facilities that are ...
... locality starts to act like an ' idiot ' cell is not hard to discover . Anyone intimate with an outstand- ingly successful city district knows when this qualitative turn is in process of occurring . Those who use the facilities that are ...
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... locality than it is to know how many bits in the same category of bits are going into other localities and what is being done with them there . No other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning , whether the planning ...
... locality than it is to know how many bits in the same category of bits are going into other localities and what is being done with them there . No other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning , whether the planning ...
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