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14:57 | 14-11-2012 | Architecture, Geography, Lifeform | No Comments
INTERVIEWER: In the book, you write that “communities are networks, not places.” Tell us about why and how networks matter to cities?
ZACHARY NEAL [Michigan State University, the author of The Connected City]: We often think of communities in place–based terms, like Jane Jacobs’ beloved Greenwich Village. But, whether or not a place like Greenwich Village is really a community has more to do with the residents’ relationships with one another — their social networks – than with where they happen to live or work. The danger of thinking about communities as places is that it can lead us to find communities where they don’t exist.
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Understanding how the connected city is organized is really a matter of understanding network distance: Why are some people close to one another in a network, while others are further apart?
и еще, о планировке:
Phoenix’s strictly regular street grid makes it hard to get lost, but also hard to distinguish one part of the city from the next. The organically meandering alleys of Venice almost guarantee one will get lost, but also facilitate the formation of little neighborhoods centered around tiny campos.
лабиринты судеб, ага.