Uses Parks as Focal Points? NO
Jane Jacobs suggested that parks should be used as nodes and focal points to gain value. Atlantic Yards does the opposite. Parks there are what Jacobs would call project “prairie.” Beyond this, Jane Jacobs suggested that good park design entailed design with four main elements, none of which are employed in the Atlantic Yards design. These are in the four criteria that follow.
JJ Cites: [It is easy to identify such centers of district life and activity, because they are where people with leaflets to hand out choose to work (if permitted by the police). But there is no point in bringing parks to where people are, if in the process the reasons that the people are there are wiped out and the park is substituted for them. P. 101 . . . city districts with relatively large amounts of generalized park. . . seldom develop intense community focus on a park and intense love for it, . . .p. 102 Parks intensely used in generalized public-yard fashion tend to have four elements in their design which I shall call intricacy, centering, sun and enclosure. P. 103]
(For more on this subject see Noticing New York’s post: Monday, September 22, 2008, Should a Teardrop be Shed- Considering the Burden?)
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