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April 11, 2006

Good Streets, Bad Streets

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Brooklyn Views offers this contrast with the following thought from Jane Jacobs:

“A city sidewalk by itself is nothing. It is an abstraction. It means something only in conjunction with the building and other uses that border it…streets and their sidewalks, the main public places of a city, are its most vital organs."

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Posted by lumi at April 11, 2006 2:00 PM