{"id":3648,"date":"2012-01-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2024-06-02T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T17:20:51","slug":"the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities-by-jane-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/08\/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities-by-jane-jacobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death And Life Of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I borrowed this one from a friend who&#8217;s interested in architecture. I didn&#8217;t completely appreciate it as I was flipping through it, but after a while I came to see it for what it was- a stunning bottom-up observation of the huge beast of society, and a tremendous understanding of how little interactions make a big difference. It becomes clear that cities are living organisms, and it&#8217;s startling how simple principles of design can make or break them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thinking about Jane Jacobs&#39; Death and Life of Great American Cities and how her sidewalk contact ideas apply to online communities: Lively communities of _actually_ diverse people don&#39;t form in a landscape of silos, where buy-in is all or nothing &#8211; you need gradients of intimacy.<\/p>&mdash; Saffron Huang (@saffronhuang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saffronhuang\/status\/1443309371040092169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed this one from a friend who&#8217;s interested in architecture. I didn&#8217;t completely appreciate it as I was flipping through it, but after a while I came to see it for what it was- a stunning bottom-up observation of the huge beast of society, and a tremendous understanding of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[86,567],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-books","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-WQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14250,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/14250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}