Jane Jacobs Conditions for Diversity
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- Created on: 20-04-15 14:30
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- Jane Jacob's Conditions for City Diversity
- Primary Mixed Uses
- A city must serve more than 1 primary function
- People are outside at different times and on different schedules
- This is economically beneficial because if businesses are empty during certain times they will not be profitable
- In lower Manhattan small businesses close because they are packed at lunch breaks and empty and most other times
- While primary uses are mixed, people are able to use common facilities
- This could not be achieved by creating more residences
- Small Blocks
- Streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent
- Increased opportunity for commerce
- Increased convenience for residents
- Meet more people and network better. See more of life
- Aged Buildings
- Mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including considerable amount of old ones
- Only new buildings limit the enterprises that can support the high costs of new construction
- Many places have no need for new construction, so when it is built it becomes ghettoised
- Brooklyn has more old buildings than it needs where Stuyvesant Town has too many new buildings. Both are in decline
- Concentration
- There must be sufficient urban density
- Economically, creates large markets, encourages knowledge spill overs
- There is an optimum level of density, but no sufficient level
- Slums and density are not necessarily linked. Poverty and slums are linked.
- Primary Mixed Uses
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