Cerritos, a financially successful city, is a well-planned suburban city that is shaped in a horseshoe. This picture shows the Cerritos Town Center. With several chain-stores lined up in an organized manner, this commercial center is an ideal place to shop. The sidewalk is decorated with Palm Trees that are equidistant from each other. “A sidewalk by itself is nothing. It is an abstraction. It means something only in conjunction with the buildings and other uses that border it, or border other sidewalks very near it.” (p. 29) This sidewalk is surrounded by the street and parking space and the town center.
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This is an interesting image because I think Jane Jacobs would relate to it ambivalently. She would really like that the sidewalk was surrounding a shopping area where people are bound to congregate and socialize. According to her, this would promote human interaction and keep crime rates down because more eyes would be on the street. However, I think she would hate the horseshoe shape reminiscent of the Garden City which she denounces in her book.
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