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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... pedestrian feet . There is no point in planning for play on sidewalks unless the sidewalks are used for a wide variety of other purposes and by a wide variety of other people too . These uses need each other for proper surveillance ...
... pedestrian feet . There is no point in planning for play on sidewalks unless the sidewalks are used for a wide variety of other purposes and by a wide variety of other people too . These uses need each other for proper surveillance ...
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... pedestrians . It is fashionable to suppose that the solution lies in desig- nating certain places for pedestrians , and ... pedestrian schemes is the Gruen plan for the downtown of Fort Worth . The firm of Victor Gruen Associ- ates ...
... pedestrians . It is fashionable to suppose that the solution lies in desig- nating certain places for pedestrians , and ... pedestrian schemes is the Gruen plan for the downtown of Fort Worth . The firm of Victor Gruen Associ- ates ...
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... pedestrian streets where these may be desirable in a heavily used downtown is to botch up the use of the street for cars - largely by botching up the signal system - to the point that ' only a driver with a hole in his head would pick ...
... pedestrian streets where these may be desirable in a heavily used downtown is to botch up the use of the street for cars - largely by botching up the signal system - to the point that ' only a driver with a hole in his head would pick ...
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