Week 12

— In what ways could Jane Jacobs be considered a designer?

Jacob’s is a designer in the ways she heled reshape the cities. She focused on scale planning and the community as well. Her work influenced not just the policy but the functions of urban life within the people. She writes about the different places within cities and how she describes putting the city together and how to reverbish a city without disturbing its residence and its culture. She acts as a vigilante staying true to the nature of the city she’s lived in while also making new improvements based on the ideas of the citizens and residents around her, giving methods on true change.

— What were three (3) methods/tactics used by Jane Jacobs in her work to save Washington Square Park?

close the parkway to all traffic; she wrote the mayor about the plans; told people to protest against it. Got a lot of important people including Eleanor Roosevelt on their side. Had her daughter and another girl do a ribbon tying ceremony in contrast to ribbon cutting ceremonies. She hosted meetings with officials and residents of New York

— Identify and name similarities between the movie and the text. Identify and name differences between the two.

-The difference between the documentary and the texts were, tone, and main focus. In the documentary it showed the emotional aspect to this by showing footage and the interviews. It also focused more on the protest/march on urban renewal.    

— Based on watching the movie and reading the required text (or one of the alternative texts provided), what is the role of the individual in a democracy? (Specifically, cite the reading in the response).                                           

The role in the documentary was an act of vigilant. Someone who defends their views and values with actions and not just words. “America as the land of our adoption; the rest have come from those who did the same*. For this reason we have some right to consider ourselves a picked group, a group of those who had the courage to break from the past and brave the dangers and the loneliness of a strange land”. America is the land of it’s people and therefore, any change should be made for the people and for the majority, never against it. As citizens we have every right to disapprove of that change and every right to fight against it.

Dylan and Carmen met on zoom at 2pm on Nov 4th.