7 According to Jane Jacobs what were urban planners doing wr

7. According to Jane Jacobs, what were urban planners doing wrong? What was her view of the essential components of urban life? 5-8 sentences

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Jane Jacobs is a American urbanists. Her writing was often incisive and inspiring , particularly when she opposed planning and overdevelopment and embraced the role of middle class families in cities. She published important work The Death and Life of Great Americian Cities in 1961. So Jacobs attacks on urban rationalism and she predict control aspect of urban life with great humility.

Essenital components of Urban life :

According to jane jacobs four essential components are 1. mixed primary uses

2. short blocks

3. Ageing buildings

4. population density

1. mixed primary uses : the secret to a successful mix uses is keeping the streets busy at all times of days with all kinds of people.

2. short blocks : It ensure that pedestrians arenot limited to an isolated route

3. Age buildings: Buildings mixed with in age and condition so that people of all socioeconomic backgrounds are able to make the neighborhood home and participate in its economic life.

4 Population density : According to her advances in fields less moribund than city planning such as medicine, sanitation and epidemology, nutrition, and labor legislation, have profoundly revolutionized dangerous and degrading conditions that were once inseparable from high density city life.