The Death and Life of Great American Cities¶
Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House.
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Primes¶
- Design Patterns
This sourceCritique of mid-century top-down urban-planning orthodoxies (Moses, Le Corbusier) that overrode organic neighborhood fitness; supports the claim that planning prescriptions limited pattern-language adoption in architecture vs. software (marker 371).
- Encounter Surface
- In urban form, plazas, streets, transit stations, libraries, and parks are encounter surfaces; Jacobs's "eyes on the street" and Oldenburg's "third places" are encounter-surface analyses, and design choices that compromise any condition — closed street networks, walled developments, hostile architecture, privatised squares — reduce a city's encounter-surface area even when the buildings remain.
This sourceSource of the "eyes on the street" analysis of how streets, sidewalks, and mixed use sustain contact among strangers and civic safety.
- In urban form, plazas, streets, transit stations, libraries, and parks are encounter surfaces; Jacobs's "eyes on the street" and Oldenburg's "third places" are encounter-surface analyses, and design choices that compromise any condition — closed street networks, walled developments, hostile architecture, privatised squares — reduce a city's encounter-surface area even when the buildings remain.
- Eyes On The Street
- In architecture and urban planning, the Jacobs origin, mixed-use streets, active ground floors, windows on the street, and short blocks saturate the street with incidental observers, and CPTED operationalises this as a design discipline.
This sourceOrigin of "eyes on the street": mixed-use blocks, active ground floors, windows facing the street, and short blocks keep incidental observers present, producing safety as a byproduct of presence.
- In architecture and urban planning, the Jacobs origin, mixed-use streets, active ground floors, windows on the street, and short blocks saturate the street with incidental observers, and CPTED operationalises this as a design discipline.
- Gall's Law
- In urban planning, cities that work grew by successive layering of working sub-systems, whereas high-modernist from-scratch designs are repeatedly found to "fail to come alive."
This sourceArgues that cities that work grow by incremental layering of working sub-systems, while from-scratch high-modernist designs fail to come alive.
- In urban planning, cities that work grew by successive layering of working sub-systems, whereas high-modernist from-scratch designs are repeatedly found to "fail to come alive."
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