{"product_id":"140561","title":"Death and Life in America's Big Cities ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtVORGZ5UAzZRmPuAZA8N.png?v=1764955497\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Death and Life in America's Big Cities \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities is one of the most influential works in the history of urban planning, a book that stands in opposition to existing orthodox urban planning and speaks of a 'different' urban planning. \u003cbr\u003eThe author directly challenges the theories of renowned architects and urban planners, criticizing that ongoing urban redevelopment and new construction never make cities more livable, but rather devastate them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The violent planning and development of spaces where they do not actually live will only turn those areas into slums.\u003cbr\u003e So Jane Jacobs' alternative urban revitalization plan involves getting more people on the streets, keeping older buildings intact, and creating a mix of uses, not just popular businesses.\u003cbr\u003e The author does not address any particular architectural vision or strategy, but views the city as a reality rather than a utopia, and asks questions about the kind of city we truly want to live in.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Preface to the 1993 edition\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: The unique character of the city\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Benefits of Reporting: Safety\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Benefits of Reporting: Contact\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Usefulness of Reporting: Children's Fairy Tales\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Benefits of Neighborhood Parks\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The Utility of Urban Neighborhoods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Conditions for Urban Diversity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: What Creates Diversity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: The Need for Mixed Main Uses\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: The Need for Small Blocks\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: The Need for Old Buildings\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: The Need for Focus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Some Myths About Diversity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: The Power of Decline and Regeneration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: The Self-Destruction of Diversity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: The Curse of the Border Blank Zone\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: Deslumming and Slumification\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Gradual Money and Turbulent Money\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Other Tactics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16 Housing Assistance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: The Encroachment of the City, or the Consumption of Automobiles\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18: Visual Order: Its Limits and Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19: Structuring the Planning Complex\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20: Earth Management and Planning\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 21: What Kinds of Urban Problems Are There?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003cbr\u003e Search\u003cbr\u003e About the Author and Translator\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Cities are giant laboratories where trial and error, both failure and success, occur in urban construction and design.\u003cbr\u003e In this laboratory, urban planning should have been the study, formulation, and testing of theory.\u003cbr\u003e But the practitioners and teachers of the discipline of urban planning (if it can be called that) have neglected to study the successes and failures of actual practice, have not inquired into the reasons for unexpected successes, and have instead taken as their guide principles drawn from the behavior and appearance of city centers, suburbs, sanatoriums, fairs, and imaginary dream cities—learning nothing from actual cities.\u003cbr\u003e ---From p.25 \"Introduction\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sidewalks of a city are nothing in themselves.\u003cbr\u003e It's just an abstraction. \u003cbr\u003eA sidewalk has meaning only in relation to buildings and other uses that border it or are adjacent to it.\u003cbr\u003e The same can be said about the horizontal.\u003cbr\u003e Because it is used for purposes other than moving wheeled vehicles.\u003cbr\u003e Streets and sidewalks are the city's main public spaces and are absolutely essential organs for the city to survive.\u003cbr\u003e When you think of a city, what comes to mind? A city street.\u003cbr\u003e If a city's streets look interesting, then that city is interesting.\u003cbr\u003e If the street looks boring, the city is boring.\u003cbr\u003e ---p.53 From “Chapter 1: The Usefulness of Reporting: Safety”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe diversity that cities create, of whatever kind, depends on the fact that so many people live in close proximity to each other, and among them there exist so many different tastes, skills, needs, supplies, and preoccupations.\u003cbr\u003e In a vibrant urban district, even ordinary, small shops—hardware stores, drugstores, candy shops, and pubs—with just the owner and a clerk can and do thrive in unusual numbers.\u003cbr\u003e These stores are frequented by enough people that they can be maintained even if there are several nearby for easy access, and conversely, this convenience and the human touch of the neighborhood make up a large portion of the goods these stores carry.\u003cbr\u003e If you can't maintain multiple stores nearby, you'll soon lose this advantage. \u003cbr\u003eIf the population within a given geographic area is halved, even if the number of stores is halved, the distance between stores will increase and this will not be sustainable.\u003cbr\u003e When the inconvenience of distance arises, the advantages of small size, diversity, and human characteristics are lost.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e ---p.206 From “Chapter 6: What Creates Diversity”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Urban reconstruction is urban plunder!!”\u003cbr\u003e ―The ancient future of cities seen through the rise and fall of American cities in the 1950s!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the 1950s, America poured precious taxpayer money into urban planning without producing any significant results. \u003cbr\u003eJane Jacobs (1916-2006), deputy editor of Architectural Forum, witnessed how billions of dollars were being invested in urban redevelopment projects, but the cities were becoming unsafe, uninteresting, and unvibrant. From then on, she stood in stark contrast to orthodox urban planning theory and began a movement to revitalize cities in a way that was completely different from that of planners.\u003cbr\u003e Current urban planning costs billions of dollars and only ends up sacrificing the vitality of our cities, and renowned architects and urban planners like Le Corbusier have argued that it is actually destroying the diversity and vitality of our cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRigorous, lucid, satirical, and even literary, Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities has become a contemporary classic, shifting the paradigm of urban planning and earning enthusiastic support from those who actually use and live in cities since its first edition in 1961.\u003cbr\u003e In this book, rather than addressing any particular architectural vision or strategy, author Jacobs leaves behind a small record of his life as a 'citizen' who knew how to view the city as a real world, not a utopia, and who also loved the public life of the press.\u003cbr\u003e This book explains, in a specific and affectionate way, using examples from various cities in the United States, that what the city we live in truly needs is not violent and unilateral development and construction, but small neighborhoods, old buildings, bustling people, and children playing in the streets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Look at what we have built so far, pouring billions of dollars into it.\u003cbr\u003e Low-income housing complexes have become centers of flight, destruction, and general social despair even worse than the existing slums.\u003cbr\u003e A middle-class housing complex, a paragon of mysterious stuffiness and uniformity, cut off from the dynamism and vitality of city life.\u003cbr\u003e A luxury housing complex that tries to alleviate the emptiness with a vulgar, flat look.\u003cbr\u003e A cultural center that fails to maintain a good bookstore.\u003cbr\u003e A community center where only homeless people with no other choice but to wander around.\u003cbr\u003e A commercial center that vaguely imitates standardized suburban chain store shopping.\u003cbr\u003e A walking path where no one walks, with no way of knowing where it begins or ends.\u003cbr\u003e A highway that has ripped open the inside of a big city.\u003cbr\u003e “This is not urban redevelopment, this is urban plunder.” (Page 22)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhose city is it, or who lives in it?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWho is redevelopment for?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Violence often begins with ignorance.\u003cbr\u003e What destruction, what violence.\u003cbr\u003e Violence against individual beings is easy to occur because we are not well aware of it.\u003cbr\u003e Since the city is a place where the crisis of over-accumulation that the capitalist system inevitably causes is temporarily resolved through the constant production and destruction of space, this kind of violence is rather natural.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e East Harlem, New York, during the time Jane Jacobs lived there.\u003cbr\u003e There was a newly renovated low-income housing complex there with a remarkably large lawn.\u003cbr\u003e Local officials looked at the lawn and said something.\u003cbr\u003e “It’s really pretty. \u003cbr\u003e“Now even the poor can enjoy everything.” (Page 36) However, the residents could not like the lawn that had torn down their houses and turned their neighborhood into a place where they could not even get a cup of coffee or a newspaper.\u003cbr\u003e “Who needs that?” “No one paid any attention to what we wanted when they built this place.” City officials and developers who paid no attention to the specific lives of people.\u003cbr\u003e Because they had no real knowledge of the local residents or their lives, they were wielding tremendous violence in the name of 'development' or 'improving the living environment', turning what were on paper designated 'slums' but were actually nice places to live into outright slums where it was difficult to borrow even 5 cents. \u003cbr\u003eAnd the image of America in the 1950s or 1960s is still being repeated in the 2000s all over the world, and even in South Korea.\u003cbr\u003e Jane Jacobs made the most general point through the most specific story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Redevelopment, whether 50 years ago or now, has failed to develop people's real lives.\u003cbr\u003e A situation where the lives of tens, hundreds, or thousands of people are affected by the decisions of a small group of experts who only care about how the city looks, not how it lives, moves, and functions.\u003cbr\u003e Whether in the Yongsan disaster, in Daechuri, Pyeongtaek, or in any of the countless new town districts, the government and officials have never considered the daily lives of the people living in those areas, their networks, their livelihoods, or their lifestyles in terms of anything other than monetary value. \u003cbr\u003eThis book, \"The Death and Life of Great American Cities,\" written 50 years ago, warns of the urban death brought about by such one-sided development.\u003cbr\u003e Only when we can measure the distance between the many American cities that have died from development and the regions of our own country will we be able to slow the death of cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDiversification of housing assistance for low-income families\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e According to a newspaper report last January, 1% of Seoul's population lives in goshiwon.\u003cbr\u003e Gosiwon, which is called the modern version of a gosiwon, was not originally created for residential purposes, but not only students preparing for the exam, but also office workers, foreign workers, and even married couples live in these gosiwon if they cannot afford the expensive deposit.\u003cbr\u003e Just 5 or 6 years ago, choosing a goshiwon for living alone was the domain of college students living in the countryside, but now the category of people choosing a goshiwon has expanded considerably. \u003cbr\u003eAs Jane Jacobs pointed out 50 years ago, there are poor people in our cities who cannot afford the quality housing that the public conscience believes people deserve.\u003cbr\u003e The difference is that in Jacobs' case, he pointed out that in many cities the supply of housing itself is too small to accommodate the population without overcrowding, whereas in our case, the supply of housing itself is overflowing, and the problem is that the cost is too high to be considered simply the price of housing.\u003cbr\u003e Although for different reasons, Jacobs's America and our Korea both reach the same conclusion that a certain percentage of urban housing needs to be subsidized.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBut what Jacobs took issue with with this housing subsidy was that it was turning people who couldn't afford to pay for housing, people who couldn't afford to have their homes supplied by private companies, into a statistical group with special housing requirements, like prisoners, based on a single statistic—income!\u003cbr\u003e Low-income people become a special group of guinea pigs that utopians play with to carry out the task of urban housing assistance.\u003cbr\u003e If we think of the city as a 'problem' and objectify the people living there, and if the only measure of that objectification is their income level, then the conclusions that urban inventors can come up with can only be based on income level. \u003cbr\u003eAs with other urban development issues, the issue of housing assistance must be even more so, taking into account the diverse spectrum of people and their diverse circumstances, and ensuring that people's lives are not swayed by other decision makers simply because they are poor.\u003cbr\u003e If the city's problems could be solved simply with money, then there would be no explanation for the areas that, despite pouring so much money, never seem to become vibrant and energetic, and the parks that, no matter how beautifully decorated, never attract people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA livable city is a cause, not an effect.\u003cbr\u003e The ambiguity of the criteria for distinguishing between slums and non-slums\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen Jane Jacobs visited the North End, Boston's worst slum, she was astonished by the vitality of what city planners and local officials had labeled a \"slum\" (p. 29). The North End, though labeled a \"slum\" by others, had some of the lowest juvenile crime, morbidity, and mortality rates from tuberculosis in Boston, and it had a vibrant and friendly mix of shops, children playing, and shoppers.\u003cbr\u003e When Jacobs, who was puzzled that such a good place to live was called a 'slum', told this to a Boston city planner, the city planner said this.\u003cbr\u003e “Still, it’s a terrible slum there… Anyway, it needs to be rebuilt.\u003cbr\u003e “We need to get those people off the streets.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnyone who had been to the North End at the time would have instinctively thought that it was a good place.\u003cbr\u003e And various social statistics also confirmed that instinctive feeling.\u003cbr\u003e But for urban planners, whose job it is to define slums and figure out how to develop them, the North End had to be a bad place, according to all the theories and narratives that made them urban planners.\u003cbr\u003e The criteria for distinguishing between slums and non-slums were this ambiguous.\u003cbr\u003e No, rather than saying it's ambiguous, it would be more correct to say it doesn't exist.\u003cbr\u003e The Gangnam craze that is currently dominating Seoul is not based on any actual evidence that it is a good place to live, but rather on the baseless stereotype that 'Gangnam' is an expensive and nice place, where the upper class lives, and where you have to pay rent to be considered upper class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe unnecessaryness of NIMBY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A garbage dump, a funeral home, a junk shop… … .\u003cbr\u003e The NIMBY phenomenon, where I absolutely cannot tolerate such a disgusting facility being built near where I live.\u003cbr\u003e Now a natural social phenomenon that raises no questions, 'NIMBY' has become almost the only force that moves local residents.\u003cbr\u003e The fear of a real estate market decline, disguised as a desire for a comfortable living environment, paralyzes people's reason, leaving them unable to even think, let alone give a proper answer, to the questions, \"Why is it harmful? How harmful is it, and what is this harm?\" (p. 314).\u003cbr\u003e The only excuse is that it will become a bad place to live if such facilities are built.\u003cbr\u003e But in the conditions of a good city, as Jane Jacobs describes them, cause and effect are reversed. \u003cbr\u003eThe fact that the area does not become a bad place that people avoid because of the introduction of a hate facility, but rather the opposite.\u003cbr\u003e If a place is home to abusive facilities, it is a sign that the area has become a place that people avoid. And even if a business called abusive facility is built, if the area is successful, it will not be affected by the facility.\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the hate\/non-hate norms, the facility would only add diversity to the area.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e However, people tend to feel safe and comfortable if the facilities they dislike do not come into their neighborhood, and they believe that their area is pleasant.\u003cbr\u003e For Jane Jacobs, nothing could be more damaging to an urban district than a lack of rich diversity among its legal (and some illegal) economic uses. \u003cbr\u003eIf you were to walk into any planned district today and see clean but monotonous landscapes and empty streets, you would likely easily question what constitutes urban success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIt is the diverse human activities that give life to a city.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The city, being a structural system in itself, is best understood from its own perspective, not from that of some other kind of organism or object.\u003cbr\u003e But if a brief, yet not easily grasped, analogy might be helpful, perhaps the best is to imagine a vast field spread out in darkness.\u003cbr\u003e There are fires burning here and there in the fields.\u003cbr\u003e Some fires are big and some are small.\u003cbr\u003e Some fires are far away, some are close by and dotted with dots.\u003cbr\u003e Some fires burn brightly, while others slowly fade away. \u003cbr\u003e“Each fire, whether large or small, spreads its light into the surrounding darkness, thus creating a space.” (Page 493)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the metaphor Jane Jacobs uses, the space and shape of space created by light exist only to the extent that the light from the fire creates it.\u003cbr\u003e And the only way to give form or structure to darkness is to light a new fire in it or to increase the fire that is nearby.\u003cbr\u003e For cities, only by creating diversity, complexity, and vitality can we shed light on the darkness of the city and give it existence.\u003cbr\u003e As Jacobs argues, only the complexity and vitality of use give the parts that make up a city the proper structure and form. \u003cbr\u003eHowever, modern cities are overflowing with diversity, and this diversity is disguised as unity, and places that were once alive and breathing through the diverse human activities of people are being homogenized as part of urban planning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn the case of Hongdae\u003c\/b\u003e : Hongdae is known as the street of youth, fashion, and music.\u003cbr\u003e Around it, there was a unique underground passageway unique to Hongdae, where poor musicians would set up folding chairs and play guitars and sing, those who wanted to draw could freely show off their skills, and street artists would change their graffiti almost every week.\u003cbr\u003e The underground passage, which served as a stage for short-term performances and a venue for impromptu ensemble performances by aspiring musicians who met by chance, was torn down as part of the bus-only lane plan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAlthough placards were hung to protect the underground passage and some movements were seen here and there, more importance was placed on fitting in with the big picture of urban planning rather than on regional characteristics or specific activities of people, so the underground passage was torn down, and the small landmark of Hongdae that had differentiated it from other areas by promoting 'culture' disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e The road in front of Hongik University, which highlighted the diversity and unique characteristics of the district without spending a lot of money, has come to resemble Gwanghwamun, Jongno, and Gangnam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn the case of Seongmisan in Mapo-gu\u003c\/b\u003e : Seongmisan Village Community has now become a fairly well-known local community.\u003cbr\u003e The Seongmisan Village community, which started as a joint childcare group, is run by residents who formed a cooperative.\u003cbr\u003e Residents continued to protect Seongmisan Mountain from the threat of demolition with their own strength, and parents concerned about their children's education established an alternative school. \u003cbr\u003eNot only did they open a side dish shop through joint investment, but the villagers also opened the ‘Seongmisan Village Theater’ through fundraising.\u003cbr\u003e Residents constantly think about and study the city through things like 'Eco-Urban Redevelopment Workshops', and rather than simply being notified of local decisions by local officials (district offices), they think together and solve problems to make the places they live in better places to live.\u003cbr\u003e If Jane Jacobs had seen this village community, she would have given it a thumbs up, saying it was the living, breathing town of her dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jacobs says the public hearing he remembers was one where the executive committee met the day before, made decisions on all issues, and then held a public hearing to politely listen to the residents. (Page 530) The residents felt they were all outside the problem. \u003cbr\u003eA city and urban planning where citizens can proactively take the initiative to solve problems in their local communities, rather than through passive and formal public hearings.\u003cbr\u003e What cities need is not decisions made by experts based on theory, but the will of people to solve problems, and their concrete actions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat kind of city do we want to live in?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A city where countless people come and go, live, earn money, and move.\u003cbr\u003e There are bound to be a variety of problems that arise in the functioning of this city.\u003cbr\u003e If it's a problem that's clearly visible, it's easier.\u003cbr\u003e And if it's a problem that can be solved with money, it's even easier. \u003cbr\u003eIn the case of Washington Houses, a public housing complex in the United States, they decorated one Christmas tree on a busy road and two trees inside the complex. The next day, the tree on the road was intact, but the tree inside the complex was completely gone, even the decorations. 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