Jane Jacob- The Death and Life of Great American Cities




This article is a redefining a large city on why it exist, and what it takes to plan for its development and improvement. Jacob argued that urban planning of a city needs to take place from a street-level perspective. The objective of planning a city need to support, promote and ignite the importance of city streets. This include commercial and residential spaces and a mixture of people from a variety of economic status and background. All planning effort of a city needs to take into account of the people around the neighborhood involved regardless even if the people are poor and uneducated. Any thoughts of simplifying things to make them orderly will destroy the city and its people with it. On the other hand, a city is supposed to be an organized complexity. A city is not a work of art and cannot be treated with as if it were another form of architecture. A city, unlike a small town, is filled with people who are strangers to each other, so any plans have to find ways for strangers from within a neighborhood and from without to be able to co-exist and maybe even learn a little about each other.






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