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The Continuing Relevance of Jane Jacobs’s Economics and Social Theory
This chapter begins to argue the case that Jacobs made valuable and relevant contributions to economic theory. It describes the nature of her...
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Coda
This chapter is a synopsis of the lessons learned from Jane Jacobs about economics, social theory, and policy. It also examines areas for future...
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Introduction
Jane Jacobs is renowned as a great urbanist who wrote about and profoundly influenced urban planning and design. This book is about the original and...
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the...
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Social Networks and Action Space in Cities
This chapter builds on Jacobs’s insights into social networks as a cohesive force in cities. It introduces social-network concepts into...
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Fixing Cities
This chapter looks beyond the ambitious, large-scale, utopian visions of twentieth-century urban designers to smaller-scale “micro-interventions,”...
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Cities of the Future
In the previous chapter, we examined the limits of urban micro-interventions from a Jacobsian Market Urbanist framework. Here we use that framework...
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The Paradox of Urban Diversity and Cohesion
What fosters spontaneous complexity in a city? What are the conditions that enable the emergence of complex social order? Where do effective action...
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A City Is Not a Man-Made Thing
This chapter begins to uncover and develop Jacobs’s social theory, based squarely on the concept of “spontaneous order.” In particular, it explains...
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Community Question: Classical Debates
The chapter provides an overview of the classical debates on community question. It discusses various approaches to community, comprehended as a...
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The Sociality and Spatiality of Social Encounters Among Strangers
This chapter proposes a theoretical framework to study the sociality and spatiality of social encounters among strangers, in other words, the types...
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Urban Design for the Economy
When Singapore gained independence in 1965, the Singapore economic model was one of courting multinational corporations to set-up low-cost...
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Knowledge on the Way to Walkability
This book delves into the topic of walkability in the built environment of Singapore. It explores how the state has dealt with the challenges and...
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Urban Agriculture and the Right to the City: A Practitioner’s Roadmap
This essay approaches urban agriculture from the perspective of an architect and urban farmer/beekeeper practicing bottom-up, participatory design in...
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Cutting und Splitting: Die Methode Matta-Clark – eine Inspirationsquelle für öffentliche Soziologie?
Auf Youtube kann man unter dem Titel Splitting eines der raren Dokumente von einer der wichtigsten künstlerischen Gesten des 20. Jahrhunderts finden....
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The Quarter as New Level of Urban Crime Prevention
The urban quarter represents the central spatial level of action in the city. For the quarter as a new basic urban unit, an integrated and a public...
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Jan Gehl
Jan Gehl was instrumental in develo** the idea of planning for cities and urban areas from a person perspective, putting people at the heart of...
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Proximity-Based Planning and the “15-Minute City”: A Sustainable Model for the City of the Future
With the advent of technologies within the urban setup, the concept of smart cities is booming, leading to new possibilities for dwelling into...
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Redesigning Urban Neighbourhood Space Under the Open Community Policy in Mainland China
In China's urban development, the gated community model has proliferated. This model's popularity has contributed to the loss of Chinese...
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Physical space characteristics and official statistics of crime in the historic centre of Porto, Portugal: the crucial role played by crime prevention through environmental design
Understanding the relationship between physical spaces and crime in the Historic Centre of Porto (HCP), Portugal, is crucial, considering the...
