Jacobs mentions that long distances affect the urban vitality. The effect of self-isolating streets about the economy has an impact equally inhibitory. Once one offers long distances to the resident and this one has no choice, usually, it performs its activities in the surroundings once a day, at the most, twice, due to the absence of physical comfort in its displacement. On this case, mainly for senior and disabled people. Likewise, retailers and service providers usually settle in busy streets or throughfares. This confluence of activities happens along one or two main axes, stagnating polarities with surrounding areas and not establishing relationships with eventual small retailers in other streets.
*Secondary diversity is a name for the enterprises that grow in response to the presence of primary uses, to serve the people the primary use draw. In: JACOBS, 161, OP. cit., p. 162 …show more content…
Furthermore, Jacobs alleges that, in the case of too-long blocks, outsiders that are in the district will keep away for the same reason. As a consequence, it hinders the formation of combinations admissibly desirable of urban uses and its nature neutralizes the potential advantages that cities provide to the incubation, experimentation and numerous small retailers, inasmuch as these last ones need the presence of large traders for their
*Secondary diversity is a name for the enterprises that grow in response to the presence of primary uses, to serve the people the primary use draw. In: JACOBS, 161, OP. cit., p. 162 …show more content…
Furthermore, Jacobs alleges that, in the case of too-long blocks, outsiders that are in the district will keep away for the same reason. As a consequence, it hinders the formation of combinations admissibly desirable of urban uses and its nature neutralizes the potential advantages that cities provide to the incubation, experimentation and numerous small retailers, inasmuch as these last ones need the presence of large traders for their