 | Edward Krupat - 1985 - 254 pagina’s
...stream are quite low. Jane Jacobs (1961) has summarized this distinction quite pointedly: "Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like...that cities are, by definition, full of strangers" (p. 30). Once stated, this point may seem so self-evident and straightforward as to be useless. For... | |
 | Susan Perkis Haven - 1987 - 272 pagina’s
...interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull. " Cities, Jacobs points out, "are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ in basic ways and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers." And when you... | |
 | Samuel R. Delany - 1993 - 412 pagina’s
...totally unlike any service that sidewalks and streets in little towns are called upon to do. Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like...suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities, by definition, are full of strangers. — |ANE IACOBS The Death and Life of Great American Cities This... | |
 | Steven Johnson - 2002 - 290 pagina’s
...ant colonies, more is different. "Great cities are not like towns only larger," Jane Jabobs writes. "They are not like suburbs only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways." She was writing, of course, about real-world cities, but she could just as easily have been talking... | |
 | Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout - 2003 - 602 pagina’s
...service that sidewalks and streets in little towns or true suburbs are called upon to do. Great cities are not like towns. only larger. They are not like...To any one person. strangers are far more common in big cities than acquaintances. More common not just in places of public assembly. but more common at... | |
 | John Clement Ball - 2004 - 316 pagina’s
...throughout the novel. 30 Cf. Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 'Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like...that cities are, by definition, full of strangers' ('Uses' 104). 31 Information about the station comes from the Battersea Power Station Community Group... | |
 | Justin D. Edwards, Douglas Ivison - 2005 - 241 pagina’s
...References to the sky, clouds, and the moon recur throughout the novel. 3 Cf Jane Jacobs: 'Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like...that cities are, by definition, full of strangers' ('Uses' 104). 4 See Cohen's While Canada Slept and Axworthy's Navigating a New World. Epilogue JUSTIN... | |
 | 412 pagina’s
...small town. "Great cities," urbanist Jane Jacobs once observed, "are not like towns, only larger."14 They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways,...that cities are, by definition, full of strangers. In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not — only those you... | |
 | Emily Abruzzo - 2007 - 252 pagina’s
...wrote in 1961 that cities become more than the sum of these unrelated parts by saying, "great cities are not like towns only larger, they are not like suburbs only denser."3 When a city begins its cycles of growth, if conditions are optimal, small events and minor... | |
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Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers. 