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75 — Jane Jacobs — 1/2 — Eyes on the Street

About Buildings + Cities

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The Unsyntary Condition of Cities

I want to point out that a lot of the houses that were, people were living in astonishing bad conditions, not just in the cities, also in the countryside but like lots of people didn't have any plumbing. So lots of people had to share buildings that would normally you'd think of being lived in by one family, had to be lived in by multiple. That had been in London exacerbated by the war but that's also been a bit of an issue because it was like that before the war. And that's why when people left to get bigger houses in the ribbon development was because those houses would have enough room for the kids to have their own bedroom. The place is so familiar that

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