The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two. These must insure the presence of people who go outdoors on different schedules and are in the place for different purposes, but who are able to use many facilities in common.
Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent.
The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce. This mingling must be fairly close-grained.
There must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there. This includes dense concentration in the case of people who are there because of residence.
• observering the city
• describing the city
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
• activism
• bottom-up victory
• who she influenced
• rediscovered?
• how to implement her ideas
• critique
• Mixed primary uses
• Small blocks
• Aged buildings
• Concentration
Robert Moses (1888-1987) was the NYC head of city planning, in charge of all new development.
She said that the solution is diversity in all ways possible, because that is how life works:
* Activity at all times of the day, diverse users 24/7
* Diversity of buildings.
* Mixed uses as much as possible
Her articles in Vogue Magazine on districts of NYC:
The diamond districts
The fur district
Manhole covers
“Historically, solutions to city problems have very seldom come from the top. Instead, they come from people who understand the problems first-hand because they’re living with them and have new, ingenious, and often off-beat ideas on solving them.“
the four conditions
"There is a difference between high density and overcrowding. High density neighborhood per m² is good, but an overcrowded dwelling is not good. "