![]() ![]() This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Jby Samuel. The following example was given in the book where if you were to go to Main St, you would probably run into people you know or your children’s teacher or people you know at work and that I find interesting because it is connected. The 3 type of cities listed above falls into that category but any other type of city will most likely be unsuccessful if they are unable to solve its problemsĬity planners view neighborhood as a small community of about 7000 where it is large enough to support an elementary school, a community center and a shopping place. I found it interesting that to be a successful self-governed city, the city needs to identify its own problem and find a way to resolve it. Any other neighborhood not listed above gets in the way of being self-governed. According to Jane, a city needs to be governed or independent. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. ![]() There are three types of cities: a city as a whole, street neighborhoods and district of 10,000 or more. While reading chapter 6 of the Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, few things caught my attention ![]()
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