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Reading Activity Guide For AR421S2

This document provides instructions for a reaction paper assignment on the essay "The Uses of Sidewalk: Safety" by Jane Jacobs. Students are asked to: 1) Identify a safe neighborhood street and list the physical and social characteristics that make it feel safe. 2) Enumerate the sidewalk safety factors Jacobs identified. 3) Compare the identified characteristics using a Venn diagram. 4) Discuss additional characteristics contributing to safety not mentioned by Jacobs. 5) Reflect on how this analysis will affect their approach to planning as future architects. The reaction paper should be 3-4 handwritten pages using the questions to structure a coherent paragraph format incorporating the Venn diagram.

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Reading Activity Guide For AR421S2

This document provides instructions for a reaction paper assignment on the essay "The Uses of Sidewalk: Safety" by Jane Jacobs. Students are asked to: 1) Identify a safe neighborhood street and list the physical and social characteristics that make it feel safe. 2) Enumerate the sidewalk safety factors Jacobs identified. 3) Compare the identified characteristics using a Venn diagram. 4) Discuss additional characteristics contributing to safety not mentioned by Jacobs. 5) Reflect on how this analysis will affect their approach to planning as future architects. The reaction paper should be 3-4 handwritten pages using the questions to structure a coherent paragraph format incorporating the Venn diagram.

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AR 421S2: Urban Design Studio

Arch. Eduardo F. Bober, Jr


READ the short essay of Jane Jacobs from the Death and Life of Great American
Cities (1961) entitled, The Uses of Sidewalk: Safety.
WRITE a reaction paper in relation to the essay guided by the questions below:
1. Identify a community or a street in your neighborhood in which people feel
safe walking at any time of the day or night. List down or mention the
(physical and social) characteristics of that street that you think make people
that they are safe even in the middle of the night.
2. Enumerate the characteristics of sidewalks that Jane Jacobs identified as
factors that make a certain sidewalk safe.
3. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the characteristics of your
safe community/sidewalk with Jane Jacobs.
4. What are the characteristics you identified in your community/street that
were not identified in Jane Jacobs essay? How do you think do these
characteristics contribute to the feeling of safety in a specific area?
5. As a future architect/planer, how did this analysis of sidewalk safety affect
your approach to planning?
Reaction papers should be handwritten in 8.5 x 11.00 inches bond paper. Use one
(1) side of the paper only.
A minimum of three (3) and a maximum of four (4) pages is required for this paper.
Present your answers/reaction essay in a coherent and very sensible paragraph
form incorporating the Venn diagram at the most appropriate juncture.

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