Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card #8: Parks Are Designed So Sun Shines Within Them? NO

This is evaluation item #8 (of 47) of the Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card

Parks Are Designed So Sun Shines Within Them? NO

Jane Jacobs said that parks should be designed so that sun hits the park. The placement of the green space at Atlantic Yards amongst super-tall buildings does not permit this achievement.





JJ Cites: [Sun is a part of a park’s setting for people, shaded, to be sure, in summer. P. 105 . . . the great building shadow across it from a new apartment house is a great eraser of human beings within its pall. . . .buildings should not cut sun from a park - - - if the object is to encourage full use P.106]


(For more relating to the lack of sun in the park space see Noticing New York’s post: Monday, September 22, 2008, Should a Teardrop be Shed- Considering the Burden?)