scholarly journals Vitalidad urbana y vida cotidiana: revisitando a Jane Jacobs desde el análisis espacial del comercio alimentario en Barcelona

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-167
Author(s):  
Irene Gómez-Varo ◽  
Xavier Delclòs-Alió ◽  
Carme Miralles-Guasch
Keyword(s):  
Jane Jacobs

El creciente interés por el estudio de la vida cotidiana en las ciudades ha llevado a recuperar las ideas de Jane Jacobs, una de las figuras más influyentes del pensamiento urbano. Uno de sus conceptos más célebres es el de vitalidad urbana, a partir del cual se identifican elementos del entorno construido que convierten los espacios urbanos en lugares donde confluyen la presencia de gente, el bullicio y la combinación de diversas actividades. El artículo relaciona la vitalidad urbana con los comercios alimentarios, uno de los elementos esenciales de la vida cotidiana, que permiten satisfacer la necesidad primaria de la alimentación. El análisis se desarrolla en Barcelona, donde se identifican dos pautas de consumo, que se relacionan con dos tipos de comercios: la que se asocia con la cotidianidad, representada por las tiendas de alimentación; y la de carácter recreativo, representada por los bares y restaurantes. A través de un análisis de autocorrelación espacial, mediante el indicador global y local de Moran, el objetivo es ver cómo se relacionan estas dos maneras de acceder a la comida con la vitalidad urbana. El resultado es una vitalidad que presenta matices: si bien se asocia a comercios de consumo cotidiano, en determinadas zonas de la ciudad, esta también convive, con dinámicas socioeconómicas que interfieren en la vida cotidiana.

Outreach in Major American Cities

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Donald J. Cosentino
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
State University ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Dense Population ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Hill ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

The question immediately suggests itself: what constitutes a major American city? Subjectively, but with a long side glance at Jane Jacobs, I would define such a metropolitan area by several attributes. One obviously is population density, though the actual number of people that make up the city is less important than the diversity within the population that allows for a great diversity in culture. Major American cities are composed of many cultural, racial, and economic constituencies coexisting in a single polity. Thus, even though Peoria and San Francisco are dense population centers, one is a major farm town, and the other is a major city. This multiplicity of ethnic constituencies is reflected in a city’s educational, economic, religious, political, and cultural institutions which are likewise fragmented, though interdependent. Such cities with enormous and highly diverse constituencies are likely to be more self-sufficient culturally, politically, and economically than other American towns. They supply their own news and publications, stage their own cultural events, concentrate more on their own political processes, and establish autonomous norms of behavior. In fact, what happens in these cities more often creates the news, the culture, the mores, and the politics for the rest of the land. A university operating in such a milieu is not just a light on the hill. It is a constituency within a mosaic of constituencies. It is linked to those other constituencies politically, socially, culturally, and economically, just by being where it is. It must frequently act on an ad hoc basis, responding to requests and solicitations that are sometimes immediate, and sometimes imperative. The parameters of its actions are clearly traceable in the mosaic of relationships which describe the city. It is not as free as the state university in the college town to define its own program, but by its existential commitment to its locale it draws whatever important qualities it will have for itself, for its community, and for the nation.

Jane Jacobs

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-169
Author(s):  
Paul Kidder ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
York City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
The People ◽  
Architectural Preservation ◽  
American Cities

Jane Jacobs’s classic 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, famously indicted a vision of urban development based on large scale projects, low population densities, and automobile-centered transportation infrastructure by showing that small plans, mixed uses, architectural preservation, and district autonomy contributed better to urban vitality and thus the appeal of cities. Implicit in her thinking is something that could be called “the urban good,” and recognizable within her vision of the good is the principle of subsidiarity—the idea that governance is best when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses—a principle found in Catholic papal encyclicals and related documents. Jacobs’s work illustrates and illuminates the principle of subsidiarity, not merely through her writings on cities, but also through her activism in New York City, which was influential in altering the direction of that city’s subsequent planning and development.

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