Chater 9

The title of Chapter 9 is The Need of Small Blocks. So in general, Jane Jacobs talks about how this idea works and gives several examples that exist in New York City. She believes that short blocks have much more advantages than long, super blocks. First she wrote about how inconvenience for people live in the area of Columbus Avenue and Eighty Ninth Street in Manhattan. Since there are long blocks all over that place. The author said: “In this neighborhood there is geographically so little street frontage on which commerce can live, that it must all be consolidated, regardless of its type or the scale of support it needs or the scale of convenience that natural to it.” And after this she also gives good examples short blocks like the one constructed in Rockefeller Center. During these paragraphs, author talks about the importance of the extra street across the Rockefeller Center between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. In her opinion without this street the Rockefeller Center will no longer be the center of economic and everything else in that area. Most importantly as successful block planning must be short and convenient for people to use.