Jane Jacobs talks about Unslumming and slumming in this Chapter. "Slums and their populations are the victims." Starting with this sentence, she thinks that this problem has always been exist and will hardly go away in a big city. "Unslumming" occurs gradually, as people who could afford to move out choose to stay. Both slumming and unslumming are perpetual cycles which do not fit with current planning theory. And one of Jacobs main point is that: "The processes that occur in unslumming depend on the fact that a metropolitan economy, if it is working well, is constantly transforming many poor people into middle-class people, many illiterates into skilled(or even educated)people, many greenhorns in to competent citizens.” So we could see that the economic development is one big factor by making the Unslumming and slumming process. Otherwise nothing can really affect this phenomenon. And it will happen in all big cities like NYC.
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