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is, along with the public square, that which attracts a crowd, is accessible to all social classes, and accounts for a scene of unplanned, informal, improvised encounters.

As a public room, the square is distinguished by its accessibility to all social classes and the great variety of activities it accomodates. Barring state proscriptions, it is a flexible space that enables those who use it to use it for their mutual purposes. The square or the busy street attracts a crowd precisely because it provides an animated scene -a scene in which thousands of unplanned, informal, improvised encounters can take place simultaneously' (Scott 1998:120)

is, along with their sidewalks (as the main public places of a city), the city's most vital organs.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. Jane Jacobs

Then, said Glaucon, let us have the tale over again... is not the road to Athens just made for conversation' (plato: symposium)

is apt to be a safe street when it is well-used. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. Jane Jacobs

is a space where loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda pop on stoops is integral to the public nature of city life. To promote them going to their own homes is like saying people at a banquet should give parties at home.

Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: 'This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!' That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home. Jane Jacobs

is a space where, lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow.

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. Jane Jacobs

is a side-walk ballet always replete with new improvisations.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. Jane Jacobs

is enormously important in city planning. The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. Jane Jacobs

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