“Reading “High Line 1: The Meatpacking District” reminded me a lot Jane Jacobs and her ideas about neighborhoods and the communities they foster. Reading about the Meatpacking District it felt like there were a lot of different little communities that looked out for each other. On page 39 of The […]
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Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City, was interviewed about her book (http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin). In the interview she was asked about the term authenticity, specifically “What do you mean by ‘authenticity’ in this urban context?” She responds “I chose very deliberately to use the word ‘authenticity’ to talk about changes in New […]
“Which part of Jacob’s vision was actually misinterpreted?.”This is what I remember briefly asking myself after rereading the beginning of Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs” this week. As a mutual consensus, Jane Jacobs is and will be forever seen as the hero who fought […]
As I was reading Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs,” I kept thinking back to Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the way in which ideas are interpreted or rather, misinterpreted. Tochterman writes a great deal about the […]
When Amazon picked New York City as one of two locations to house its headquarters, the city was ecstatic for the 25,000 jobs promised for the 25,000 people so eagerly waiting. Or so Bezos thought. Instead of plopping themselves right into Long Island City as was planned, the people of […]
Jane Jacobs’, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, predominantly allows readers to see cities as having ‘life cycles,’ as determined by their architectural nature. Given that, city planners design urban living according to how they think such living spaces should work. Jacobs on the other hand, attacks the […]
One of Jane Jacobs’s main points in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities is that city planners misunderstand the benefits of city living and only value an ideal that is similar in look to a small town or village. These planners promote a society in which […]
“The room for great differences among neighbors- differences that often go far deeper than differences in color- are possible and normal only when streets of great cities have built in equipment allowing strangers to dwell in peace together.” -Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. A woman- […]
The company Nintendo is notorious for making video games that offer unique interactive experiences, such as their popular franchise Animal Crossing. The Animal Crossing series of video games allows people to take on the role of a new resident in a town full of talking animals that have all sorts […]
In Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she mentions how important it is for there to be a natural place for people to interact with each other because if they don’t, they become more private and less social which in turn makes the damages the […]
After reading the assigned portions of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, “Our House” the 1982 pop song by Madness “popped” into my head. For those unfamiliar with the song, the lyrics are available here: https://genius.com/Madness-our-house-lyrics. In “Our House” Madness constantly repeats the phrase “Our house in […]
The conflict between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, the difference between their two visions can be generalized to a battle between interest in capital and interest in public life; the automobile vs the human; the middle class vs the working class. One of the lines that highlights the antagonistic relationship […]
