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fine. Indeed it is doubtful if there is a city in the world with a better situation for beauty, or for utilitarian purposes. As to its healthiness, it is well known. No wonder it took the eyes of the early Holland immigrants. It is hilly and elevated in its natural state - and these peculiarities, graded down somewhat by the municipal improvements, but still preserved in their essential particulars, give us a sight of unsurpassed advantage and charming scenery."

City Planning by Robinson-1916 Pratt Library 710 R656

page 81

"The city is like a great machine. No part is independent. All are interlocked, and to break connections is to injure the whole mechanism.

This is because the people of no section or district of the city, however exclusive it may be, can lead, or even wish to lead, an isolated

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life. They would not be residents of the city if they did not desire or expect to have relations with its other parts. So the question presses: What are the community's dominate [sic.] requirements of city streets, what main purposes do streets serve?"

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Violence in the City Streets by Jane Jacobs

Harper Magazine Sept 61 and the "Death and Life of Great America Cities" Random House 1961 - from the changing metropolis p. 36 - 301.36 7564 Pratt

"Today barbarism has taken over many city streets - or people fear it has which comes to much the same thing in the end."

p 37

"The public peace - the sidewalk and street peace - of cities is not kept primarily by the police, necessary though they are. It is kept primarily by an intricate, almost unconscious network of voluntary controls and standards among the people themselves."

p 38

"There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to what we might call its natural proprietors.