‘Downtown Is for People’: The street-level approach in Jane Jacobs' legacy and its resonance in the planning debate within the complexity theory of cities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2018.12.023
Abstract: Abstract Jane Jacobs suggested that ‘just and diverse streets’ reflect the functioning of the city as ‘a problem of organised complexity’. The topic has recently been at the centre of the debate on her work.… read more here.
Keywords: debate; theory; jane jacobs; street level ... See more keywords
Looking at Barcelona through Jane Jacobs’s eyes: Mapping the basic conditions for urban vitality in a Mediterranean conurbation
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.026
Abstract: Jane Jacobs’ quest for urban vitality has had an indisputable influence for urban researchers and planners especially in the Anglo-American context, yet her theories have reached smaller audiences in other parts of the world. This… read more here.
Keywords: jacobs eyes; jane jacobs; vitality; conurbation ... See more keywords
Jane Jacobs’s Criteria for Urban Vitality: A Geospatial Analysis of Morphological Conditions in Quito, Ecuador
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DOI: 10.3390/su15118597
Abstract: Urban vitality, understood as a key factor in the achievement of cities’ sustainability, shows a strong relationship with urban morphology. The city theorist Jane Jacobs suggested morphological aspects to promote vital cities in the 1960s,… read more here.
Keywords: jane jacobs; urban vitality; quito ecuador; vitality ... See more keywords