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Urban Planning: Examining Jacobs' Insights

Explore Jane Jacobs' key ideas on city planning and urban development, focusing on topics such as small enterprises, block sizes, building mixture, density, harmful land uses, and diversity preservation. Dive into the critique of past urban planning ideologies and understand terms such as downtown core, suburbs, and inner city. Uncover the themes of city development and short-term calculations, reflecting on the importance of sustainable urban environments.

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Urban Planning: Examining Jacobs' Insights

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  1. 6-23 JAN.(if you’re not taking POL 2500) Fri., 6 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 1. Mon., 9 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 7. Wed., 11 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 8. Fri., 13 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 9. Mon., 16 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 10. Wed., 18 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 11. Mon., 23 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 12.

  2. 6-23 JAN.(if you’re taking POL 2500) Fri., 6 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 9 Mon., 9 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 10 Wed., 11 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 11 Fri., 13 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 12 Mon., 16 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 13 Wed., 18 Jan. Jacobs, ch. 14 Mon., 23 Jan. Jacobs, ch.16

  3. STUDY QUESTIONS Chapter 1, Jacobs: Where do city planners go wrong? Decide what you consider Jacobs's most important points and summarize them, if possible in a couple of sentences. Chapter 7: According to Jacobs, why are small manufacturing enterprises better off in big cities? What are "primary uses"? Chapter 8: What is "secondary diversity"? Give a Winnipeg example of both a primary use and secondary diversity. Chapter 9: Why are short blocks preferable to long blocks? Give a Winnipeg example of either short blocks or long ones.

  4. MORE STUDY QUESTIONS Ch 10: Why is a mixture of older and newer buildings desirable? Ch 11: According to Jacobs, when is density a good thing and when is it not? When it is a good thing, why is that so? What’s the difference between density and overcrowding? Ch 12: Name a land use that Jacobs considers genuinely harmful. Why does Jacobs consider it a problem and what, if anything, does she think should be done about it? Ch 13: What is the self-destruction of diversity? Explain the problem and give a local example.

  5. STILL MORE STUDY QUESTIONS Ch 14: What is a border vacuum? Explain the problem it poses and give a local example. Ch 15: If “unslumming” is our objective, what is the most important thing to do, and the most important thing to avoid? Explain briefly, and cite an example or two. Chapter 16: What’s the difference between gradual and cataclysmic money and why does it matter?

  6. WHAT’S WRONG WITH CITY PLANNING? • What did Ebenezer Howard advocate? • What did Le Corbusier advocate? • What’s wrong with their ideas?

  7. TERMS • Downtown core (Central business district) • Inner city • Central city • Suburbs • Exurban areas

  8. THEMES OF THE COURSE

  9. Theme 1: CITY DEVELOPMENT • Suburbs and exurbs: • Dispersal • Inner Cities: • Massive development • Decay

  10. Theme 2:SHORT-TERM CALCULATIONS • Developers’ time horizons • Affordable housing torn down • Heritage buildings razed • Economic considerations • Social costs • Not an ideological question

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