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Author - Jane Jacobs
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children
As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes....
216
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these....
economics
When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.
160
No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter....
164
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere....
urbanism
To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:1.....
expectations
We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.
nyc
What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to....
country
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you....
201
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did....
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