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Border vacuums and the image of the city (part 1)

| DateMonday, July 20, 2009 at 4:08 PM in

Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, 1968

This week I’ll be looking at another of the elements of The Image of the City that Jane Jacobs spends significant time discussing in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: the edge. Five chapters before discussing the limits of visual order, she dedicates a whole chapter to “border vacuums” created by edges - a phenomenon she recognizes in the failings of the modernist and Corbusian housing projects (see example above) and Daniel Burnham’s City Beautiful (see example below).

The White City, Chicago, 1893

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