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more people to the street.

(city planners and architectural designers) operate on the premise that city people seek emptiness, obvious order, and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The love of people for watching activity and other people is evident in cities everywhere."

page 40

Thousands of New Yorkers casually take care of the streets. They notice strangers. They observe everything going on. If they need to take action, whether to direct a stranger or call the police, they do so. Such action usually requires, to be sure, a certain self-assurance about the actor's proprietorship of the street and the support he will get if necessary.

page 41

... there is room in cities for many differences in people's tastes, proclivities, and occupations and these differences are in fact needed... the greater and more plentiful the range of all

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legitimate interests - in the strictly legal sense - that city streets and their enterprises can satisfy the better for the streets and for the safety of the city."

Jane Jacobs from Metropolis: values in conflict 301-36 E42

Pratt

(from her book see p 31)

p 109

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance - an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforced each other and compose an orderly whole. -

page 113

... but there is nothing simple about that order itself, or the bewildering number of components that go into it. Most of those components are specialized in one way or another. They unite in their joint effect upon the sidewalk which is not specialized in the least. That is its strength.