Architecture & Built Environment · Urban Design & Planning
A topic within Urban Design & Planning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Jane Jacobs
Mixed uses, short blocks, aged buildings and dense foot traffic are what make a city street safe and alive, so the slum-clearance and superblock planning of postwar renewal was destroying the very disorder that made cities work.
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Established federal funding for slum clearance and urban redevelopment alongside a national goal of decent housing for every American family, the legal basis for the postwar urban renewal programmes later criticised for destroying the neighbourhoods they cleared.