Park Design Makes Use of “Enclosure” to Define Park Space? NO
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Jane Jacobs said that parks should be enclosed by buildings so as to be recognizable events. The Atlantic Yards green space is not enclosed as a recognizable event. Nor is Ratner’s Atlantic Avenue Mall space.
JJ Cites: [- - the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so that it appears as an important event in the city scene, a positive feature, rather than a no-account leftover. Far from being attracted by indefinite leftover of land oozing around buildings, people behave as if repelled by them. P. 106]
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(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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