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Another confirmation that cross-use is crucial: “Reinventing Grand Army Plaza”

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I just came across this piece on Cool Hunting, on Reinventing Grand Army Plaza.  This bit really jumped out for me: With regal statues and a sparkling fountain, it’s majestic and — its function as a busy traffic circle separates the cultural landmark from the surrounding pedestrian sidewalks — inaccessible. In other words, the traffic […]

Jane Jacobs on “differences, not duplications”

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Rereading Jane Jacobs‘s classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and came across the following on p.169, in the chapter on “The Uses of City Neighborhoods”: Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. Differences, not duplications, make for cross-use and […]

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