This is evaluation item #1 (of 47) of the Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card
Avoidance of Regimentation? NO
Jane Jacobs marshaled cogent objections to the false order of “regimented” building. The replicated floorplates and building placement on the Atlantic Yards project involves such uninspired replicated regimentation.
JJ Cites: [Mr. Moses conceded that some housing might be “ugly, regimented, institutional, identical, conformed, faceless.” But he suggested that such housing could be surrounded with parks. P. 90 In cities, liveliness and variety attract more liveliness; deadness and monotony repel life. P. 99. As an extreme example, no concentration of residence, however high, is “sufficient” to generate diversity in regimented projects because diversity has been regimented out in any case. P. 205 We are constantly being told simple-minded lies about order in cities, talked down to in effect, assured that duplication represents order. It is the easiest thing in the world to seize hold of a few forms, give then a regimented regularity, and try to palm this off in the name of order. However, simple regimented regularity and significant systems of functional order are seldom coincident in this world. P. 375, 376]
Avoidance of Regimentation? NO
Jane Jacobs marshaled cogent objections to the false order of “regimented” building. The replicated floorplates and building placement on the Atlantic Yards project involves such uninspired replicated regimentation.
JJ Cites: [Mr. Moses conceded that some housing might be “ugly, regimented, institutional, identical, conformed, faceless.” But he suggested that such housing could be surrounded with parks. P. 90 In cities, liveliness and variety attract more liveliness; deadness and monotony repel life. P. 99. As an extreme example, no concentration of residence, however high, is “sufficient” to generate diversity in regimented projects because diversity has been regimented out in any case. P. 205 We are constantly being told simple-minded lies about order in cities, talked down to in effect, assured that duplication represents order. It is the easiest thing in the world to seize hold of a few forms, give then a regimented regularity, and try to palm this off in the name of order. However, simple regimented regularity and significant systems of functional order are seldom coincident in this world. P. 375, 376]
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