Chapter 3, The uses of sidewalks: Contact
After reading this chapter, I found out many new things about our city that I have never think about and notice before. That's probably because it's still not long enough for me to live in this great city.
Well, in this chapter, mostly the author is talking about how the city sidewalks involves in citizen's neighborhood and social life. She argued that a good planned sidewalk can bring the people in the city much close with “togetherness” relationships with each other. So, the sidewalks should not only provide us safety, more importantly it should have the function of getting a good contacts and connections with everyone in the neighborhood.
"Sidewalk public contact and sidewalk public safety, taken together, bear directly on our country's most serious social problem--segregation and racial discrimination."
Also, in this chapter, the author gives example about those big metropolises with unplanned city residential areas that lack neighborhood commerce and sidewalk life, such as Los Angeles.
"Los Angeles is an extreme example of a metropolis with little public life, depending mainly instead on contacts of a more private social nature."
She also talked about how cities' people like Los Angeles have contacts with their neighbors.
"When an area of a city lacks a sidewalk life, the people of the place must enlarge their private lives if they are to have anything approaching equivalent contact with their neighbors.
After reading this chapter, I found out many new things about our city that I have never think about and notice before. That's probably because it's still not long enough for me to live in this great city.
Well, in this chapter, mostly the author is talking about how the city sidewalks involves in citizen's neighborhood and social life. She argued that a good planned sidewalk can bring the people in the city much close with “togetherness” relationships with each other. So, the sidewalks should not only provide us safety, more importantly it should have the function of getting a good contacts and connections with everyone in the neighborhood.
"Sidewalk public contact and sidewalk public safety, taken together, bear directly on our country's most serious social problem--segregation and racial discrimination."
Also, in this chapter, the author gives example about those big metropolises with unplanned city residential areas that lack neighborhood commerce and sidewalk life, such as Los Angeles.
"Los Angeles is an extreme example of a metropolis with little public life, depending mainly instead on contacts of a more private social nature."
She also talked about how cities' people like Los Angeles have contacts with their neighbors.
"When an area of a city lacks a sidewalk life, the people of the place must enlarge their private lives if they are to have anything approaching equivalent contact with their neighbors.
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