Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card #13: Project Participates in City Fluidity? NO

This is evaluation item #13 (of 47) of the Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card

Project Participates in City Fluidity? NO

Jane Jacobs suggests that cities must provide fluidity which means that different sections of the city should work together in multiplying options and choice for the city’s dwellers in general. There is no evidence that Atlantic Yards (or Metrotech) is creating any new options for living or working that people will utilize. The advertising for Atlantic yards advertises much that is unique that Brooklyn offers the city at the same time it will be destructive of these characteristics.

JJ Cites: [(A) city must have the very fluidity and mobility . .A city’s collection of opportunities of all kinds, and the fluidity with which these opportunities and choices can be used, is an asset- - not a detriment- - for encouraging city-neighborhood stability. However, this asset must be capitalized upon. It is thrown away where districts are handicapped by sameness and suitable only to a narrow range of incomes, tastes and family circumstances. P. 139, 140]