“Think
of a city and what comes to mind? Its streets. If a city’s streets look
interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull. There must be eyes
on the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of
the street and the sidewalks must have users on it fairly continuously, both to
add to the number of effective eyes on the street to watch the sidewalks in
sufficient members” (Jacobs, 1965)
We would like to analyse the four streets under study through several theoretical frameworks which are as follows:
1. Jane Jacobs
2. Henri leferbve
3. Kevin lynch
4. Margaret Crawford
5. Christopher Alexander
6. David Harvey
7. Paul de Sperigon
8. Mike Davis
9. Yatin Pandya
10. Himanshu Burte
11. Ash Amin
12. K.T. Ravindran
13. Bimal Patel
14. Rameshwar
'By Urban Revolution, I refer to transformations that affect contemporary society, ranging from the period when questions of growth and industrialisation predominate to the period when the urban problematic becomes predominant, when the search for solutions and modalities unique to urban society are foremost'- Henri Leferbve
Jane Jacobs looks at a city through several parameters like the grain of the fabric, size of the block, the need for aged buildings, mix of land use.
"Flourishing diversity anywhere in a city means the mingling of high yield, middling yield, low yield and no yield enterprises"( Jacobs, 1961)
"On successful city streets, people must appear at different times. This is time considered on small scale, hour by hour through the day" (Jacobs,1961).
