Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card #12: Avoidance of Projects Being Apart from Weave of City Fabric? NO

This is evaluation item #12 (of 47) of the Jane Jacobs Atlantic Yards Report Card

Avoidance of Projects Being Apart from Weave of City Fabric? NO


(Picture from Ratner report)

Jane Jacobs objects to projects being constructed in a self-isolating way, apart from the weave of the city fabric, which is the way that Atlantic Yards is proposed to be built and the way that Ratner’s Metrotech was built.

JJ Cites: [One of the very unsuitable ideas behind projects is the very notion that they are projects, abstracted out of the ordinary city and set apart. . . The aim should be to get that project, that patch of the city, rewoven back into the fabric. . .P. 392 they must tie in with streets beyond project borders, because the prime object is to knit this site with what lies around it. P.395]

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