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Cities are generators of economic life and source of changes in the world. Thereby, Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities puts into relief the role of cities on the social and economic levels, while denouncing the disastrous consequences of urban renewal programs. To that extent, in chapters 2 and 3, she discusses "The Uses of Sidewalks”, arguing that over all people need safety and trust in their city. Therefore, first she claims the necessity of keeping streets and sidewalks safe because they are the “vital organs” of cities (29). Secondly, she argues that the functioning of cities should be organized in order to foster human interaction in which “casual public

Sidewalks and streets, the major areas of transportation in any city, determines many characteristics of a city such as whether people feel safe or not walking alone at night. If the streets aren’t safe, if there is a murder late at night, people will avoid walking in that area, causing the streets to become even more unsafe. One important lesson my parents have always impressed on me is that when I am walking at night in the city, always stick with the crowded streets in the main vein of the city, never the alleyways or the shortcuts. Jane Jacobs elaborates on this particular lesson in “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by stating that while a heavier population does not necessarily mean that a street is safer (as evidenced by the Christmas tree

Modernists had to find ways to confront and combat the expressway world. One of the ways this could be done is for modernists to come up with different ways to live a modern life. This chapter focuses on how the expressway world affected the streets of New York in the 1960’s. Jane Jacob’s book The Death and Life in Great American Cities, has played a crucial role in “changing the whole orientation of city and community planning” (314). By describing her everyday life, Jacobs demonstrates that the streets “was experienced as the medium in which the totality of modern material and spiritual forces could meet, clash, interfuse and work out their ultimate meanings and fates” (316). She refers to the remains of the city of the Haussmann age as the old city. Jacobs advices that we should keep the remains of the Haussmann age cities in order to “maintain the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city” (317). She points out that the urban renewal process aided in the destruction of the environment (streets and sidewalks) which modern values can be appreciated. In other words, we must preserve the old city life for the sake of modernism. Berman advices that the people of the city whom have become subjects of modernization, to become comfortable and take control of the modern world. In the 1960s the people of the city were fighting for their homes.

Urban waterfronts are important as the open new horizons of development through contribute to the upgrade of traditional communities. In much literature, the presence of the water has been approved as it influences the image of the city and can serve as a unifying force in a city or town through triggering force for community enrichment. Kevin Lynch (1960) described the environmental image in terms of five structural features which are essentially making sense of cities urban spaces: districts, edges, paths, nodes, and landmarks. These elements face continuous transformations and make their perception more complex and uncertain. The urban space becomes full of overlapping and intertwined stories that have made a continuous changes, complexities,

Locals were aware that their neighborhood was one full of drug handling, and short housing, along with closed businesses. Jane Jacobs, an urban theorist, disputes in her book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, that an important use of sidewalks in neighborhoods is safety. She argues that streets and their sidewalks are the most vital organs of a city. Her explanation is that “thinning out a city” is one of the most dangerous things you can do. She mentions extremely important characteristics of a city in order for it to be

Thus, like other areas in European urban areas, Paris could be transformed into a modern and mythic city, as it is known today. However, the city is still associated with the public works of the 19th century. According to author, there have been many changes and Paris became the first city to tear down its fortifications and attracting more visitors. The author explains that that the Parisian urban planning enjoyed the earliest public transportation and street lighting, and became the first city in Europe to have planned development that made it both beautiful and exiting.

The shape of the city of today; “wider streets with rectilinear lines that occurred alongside the old quarters, to be joined in the 19th and 20th centuries by the Avenidas Novas (new avenues)”

Historic evidence states that streets has been a place of interaction, movement and activity. When cars were firstly introduced the road corridors were still a place to walk, move, and play. However, in the mid twenty century motor vehicles become more popular, where two concepts came to dominate road design:

One of the main elements that shape up an urban space is the main mode of transportation that the people in that space use. The transportation systems have a major impact on the formation of an urban environment. The times when walking was considered as a major mode of transportation, the city size was much smaller, the reach one could walk. When man invented faster mobility, the reach extended. The fascination of ‘speed’ kept the man going and inventing newer modes which stretched the city size to ‘new horizons’.

An inconspicuous, but crucial infrastructure that supports everyday life in New York City is its simplistic, grid-pattern streets. Streets not only provide a clear separation for pedestrian traffic, or sidewalks, and the rest of the city’s traffic, or roads, but they also, through the Grid Plan, create a systemized map of New York City. With each street and avenue numbered or named, the distinction between streets allows traveling from one location to another to not only be convenient, but also highly systemized to reduce confusion. For example, walking northward, or in the direction of increasing street number, on University Place can take you directly from NYU’s campus to Union

In Jane Jacobs’ “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” she pays special attention to sidewalks and sidewalk safety. As the title says, she spent her time writing about urban cities filled with strangers. Jacobs, knowing that there are more strangers than acquaintances in the vast cities, specified three qualities that must be present in a safe space. First, there must be distinct boundary between public and private space. Second, there must be “eyes on the street.” Finally, the sidewalk must be used continuously to ensure the streets are occupied (Jacobs 35). Although the qualities Jacobs describes are beneficial, there are many flaws that come with it.

Taking into consideration that ‘difference is not the same as inequality’ (Blakeley et al., 2009, p. 24), this essay intends to look at KÖ and outline how the material things contribute towards differences with reference to City Road; deriving from the premise that the material assets of a street can generate either an inclusive or exclusive interaction, favouring some and not others.

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The cacophony of car horns blare like a trumpet section gone rogue. The fast pace makes even the firmest people grow dizzy and exhausted. The public transport mimics that of an elaborate labyrinth. The hectic and deafening avenues are lined with haphazard people. But, in the glistening shine of the sun, the crispness the sky, the serenity of the clouds, the freshness of the air, lies the wonder and accomplishment of the city: its architecture. Before, it was just simple and quaint land. The people of long-ago farmed upon these lands. They even named the territory after their word for onion, which was grown there. As the white men travelled west, spreading their ideologies, claiming more territory, the “Onion City” evolved from a tiny hamlet to a bustling town. Through more efforts and new technologies, concrete and steel trees became the norm. The singular architecture flavour the city like a well-chosen and aromatic spice from the earth of a far-away nation. These vast, omnipotent: awesome feats of engineering strike the heart with pure awe and motivation. They motivate the souls of men who aspire to be free like the birds that fly near them. They amaze the gawkers, mothers, fathers, workers, squatters‒ everyone. Despite the wonderful and epic landscape of concrete and steel, trash rules the streets like an unsightly tyrant. Open bags of trash are left open on the street as an invitation to a 5-star restaurant for raucous raccoons! The nauseating, putrid, macabre scent of

In “The Contemporary City”, by urban planner Le Corbusier, it describes Le Corbusier’s idea of an optimal city. He talks about how traditionalism is still present in cities, and they have to become contemporary. Having a central business district surrounded by residential districts is one of three basic parts of a contemporary city. Along with a large amount of open space for development, and suburbs further away from the city that include residential and industrial areas. He also mentions his principles for the city, but he emphasizes on the way of transportation which involves less cars to improve traffic, plus the addition of trains. Le Corbusier’s main idea was to change the major cities with architecture and his urban planning. However, in “The Radiant City”, he updated his plans for “The Contemporary City.” He wanted the environment to feel more efficient by being more active, so he added sports grounds outside of houses to make people feel more inspired. On another note, he wanted to get rid of the garden cities in the suburbs, and move it into the city in order to make the gardens more useful. As said for “The Contemporary City”, Le Corbusier asserts the importance of transportation even more. The idea of having walk ways above ground for people to travel through the city is to avoid the encounter of a car. The improved ideas and development from a “Radiant City” have been