It also shows how development in cities is important with taking the right approach. It showed that neighborhoods are crucial because the stronger the society is within a city the stronger the planning will be to improve big things. Without reading this book you wouldn’t understand about the title. The title The Death and Life of Great American Cities is referring to if a city does not have a proactive society that comes together to help grow, the city will die and not work the way it should. The life part is actually having urban planning, diversity and social interaction to help a city develop and mature the right …show more content…
The first one was the planning and how to make sidewalks safe and useful. It is also about the social behavior of people in cities, how they act in live in certain situations. The second part is about the economic behavior in cities and how to make a city diverse. This means have faculties that people are using at different times, building need to be different ages so people with different economic status have a place to rent, increase path options on how people get to one point to another and there should be a dense concentration of people. The third part is there is going to be decline in city but how does the city come together to rebuild it. Every city has obstacles with growth but having a close community helps when a city needs rapid improvements. This shows how people act in real life situations. The fourth part goes along with part three, it shows how effective tactics can be done to improve city performance. This means providing housing that is affordable for the community, many forms of transportation, and making planning projects to help the city stay