Like the author, Jane Jacobs said herself in “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” the book is “an attack on current city planning and rebuilding.” The Author makes the distinction that she is in fact not criticizing the new methods of design and style in new edification projects but is in fact attacking the reasons behind the rebuilding and the consequences they’ve created on modern society. As she revealed more about the topics that she will cover, she often began passionate rants, one of them, for example being the social developmental decay that is happening due to the lack of thought that goes into rebuilding housing projects and community center; and how new laws such as “No Loitering” is simple pushing “bums” into places originally meant for community recreation. She also talks about counterintuitive building such as “promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promanaders.”
- Juan
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