the death and life of great american cities 1961

Peculiar nature of cities: Uses of sidewalks, safety Uses of sidewalks, contact Uses of sidewalks, assimilating children Uses of neighborhood parks Uses of city neighborhoods - Conditions for city diversity: Generators of diversity Need for mixed primary uses Need for small blocks Need for aged buildings Need for concentration Some myths about diversity - Forces of decline and regeneration: Self-destruction of diversity curse of border vacuums Unslumming and slumming Gradual money and cataclysmic money - Different tactics: Subsidizing dwellings Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles Visual order, its limitations and possibilities Salvaging projects Governing and planning districts Kind of problem a city isĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:15:47 Boxid IA40257809 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The colossal physical destruction that was necessary to implement this vision tore apart the traditional multi-activity street and densely populated neighborhood that Jacobs avers is the bedrock of urban living This futurist vision insisted on the absolute segregation of the city's different activities into separate zones, linked (though also physically isolated) by super-highways set in wide parkland landscaping. By the 1950s, various American cities were pursuing ambitious urban renewal policies, influenced by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier's concept of the 'Radiant City.' Jacobs sees this being utterly at odds with urban realities, and leading to the destruction of the city as a living community.

Jane Jacobs critiques the comprehensive modernist approach to urban planning after 1945.

The death and life of great american cities 1961