Paper I Did About Jane Jacobs

Over the period of American history the cities are the areas that have been the most changed. In the Jane Jacobs interview she discusses her viewpoints on loosening or modernizing zones, promote mixed uses and economic vitality, encouraging citizen participation in the policy’s, humanizing the areas, providing more transportation options, and to better make policies that promote the idea growth in  the city..

Jane Jacobs first discusses her point of view when it comes to zoning regulations. Jane Jacobs says that she thought bad city planning was city in which city centers were sprawled all over, she used the city of Los Angeles as an example. Jane Jacobs later said that city was different and that not all cities will turn out the same. By saying that not all cities will turn out like Los Angeles, she is trying to say that loosening zoning restriction will not always a good effect. I disagreed to this though because if we loosen the zone regulations for public usage then the city would not have a bad persona, But it would drive attraction from others. One example is  NYC in which many people come to visit the various landmarks, ex: The Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Broadway, and now even Wall Street. This drive of tourism is essential for economical purposes and it is great use of land it is has good effect about how New Yorkers view the city. In a sense of modernizing zoning restrictions the result would attract be more diversity into neighbourhoods. People can also move places after renovations, an example would be Williamsburg, NY. In this area it was considered undesirable because of the crime rates, but now the area has changed from project homes to luxury lofts, through redevelopment. Many people now want to live in this area, though this promotes more redevelopment, it also makes residents move the prices would be not proportional to the income of the current residents. Then the modernizing zoning restrictions must help the moving residents, otherwise the city would be deserted. 

Jane Jacobs talked about promoting mixed-uses and keeping the economy stable. It is vital for the economy of the city to be stable.  The mixed-uses she mentioned in her interview was that in the Pittsburgh city project. This project which many people argued over was about moving business for roads and schools. She said people had the attitude of “that you can sacrifice small thing, young things, and a diversity of things for some great big success.” Form this she tells the interviewer that this is a bad form the line “people have not learn their sixties”, as she talks about the Pittsburgh project. To this I disagreed,  the promotion of the idea is more reasonable, it is not sometimes is not about the livelihoods it is about the greater good. The different usage of land must be added to effectively to see the city as a community. It would make the city more humane, rather than more business being conducted, we should educate the consumers. The economic stability city needs to be conditioned for the city to grow. Jane Jacobs talks about the city of Portland, she says that the continuous economic growth of the city made it more of a comparable to other cities on economic level. I agree with this idea because every city is economically controlled ex:NYC;stock market. It is a ideal place to conduct business, which if you look at and no business is conducted there then the economic stability is worse.