![]() ![]() Why are you in the slums? You should get out of there. When Jacobs spoke to a planner about the North End, he shared in the welcoming atmosphere and the joy of walking down the streets as well, but kept coming back to 'This area is a slum. They knocked down walls to create larger apartments, they repainted, and they opened up shops. In her research of the area, she discovered that the government had not given the neighborhood any money for reconstruction, but that the people in the neighborhood had pooled their money and had changed their living experience within the city. She shares her experience of visiting the North End of Boston at two different times: the first when it was overrun, crowded, and dilapidated, and the second when it was thriving, busy, and welcoming. ![]() Right off, she makes it clear that these problems, be that of housing developments, zoning laws, parks, or basically any other aspect of the city in this sense, are not problematic because it is in their nature to be so they are problematic because the planners have created them to be so. ![]() In her introduction to The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs makes it quite clear that there are problems with cities. ![]()
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