Alexis Rondeau

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Jane Jacobs

157 highlights · 2 notes · last read February 2022

Highlights I wrote a note on are shown in full. The other 155 are scrambled: the words are the author's, so here you only see where in the book I underlined something.

The grey areas’ pitifully few and thinly spaced patches of brightness and life are like the visible corridors at Blenheim Houses. They do attract strangers. But the relatively deserted, dull, blind streets leading from these places are like the fire stairs at Blenheim Houses. These are not equipped to handle strangers and the presence of strangers in them is an automatic menace.

Location 953

My note Balconies Attract strangers who then create problems in the side streets

Sidewalk public contact and sidewalk public safety, taken together, bear directly on our country’s most serious social problem – segregation and racial discrimination.

Location 1,390

My note Public contact and safety create social justice