The Death and Life of Great American Cities
From charlesreid1
Contents
Table of Contents
Part One: The Peculiar Nature of Cities
The uses of sidewalks: safety
The uses of sidewalks: contact
The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children
The uses of neighborhood parks
The uses of city neighborhoods
Part Two: The Conditions for City Diversity
The generators of diversity
The need for primary mixed uses
The need for small blocks
The need for aged buildings
The need for concentration
Some myths about diversity
Part Three: Forces of Decline and Regeneration
The self-destruction of diversity
The curse of border vacuums
Unslumming and slumming
Gradual money and cataclysmic money
Part Four: Different Tactics
Subsidizing dwellings
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
Visual order: its limitations and possibilities
Salvaging projects
Governing and planning districts
The kind of problem a city is
Flags
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