the surveillance system
clear demarcation between what is public space and private space.
eyes upon the street
- natural proprietors of the street
- building on street have to be equipped to handle strangers to insure the safety of both resident and strangers oriented to the street.
sidewalk must have users on it fairly and continuously
- increasing the number of effective eyes
- induce the people in building along the street
you cant make people use street they have no reason to use
you cant make people watch street they have no reason to watch
nobody enjoys sitting on a stoop … looking out a window at an empty street
control on the acceptable “ public behavior “ if not on crime seems to operate with greater or lesser success through a web of reputation , gossip , approval , disapproval and sanction.
the basic requisite for surveillance :
a substantial quantity of stores and other public places sprinkled along the sidewalk of a distict; enterprises and public places that are used by evening and night.
1. to give people both resident and strangers for using the sidewalk on which these enterprises face
2. to draw people along the sidewalk past places which have no attractions to public use in themselves but become traveled and peopled as route to somewhere else. for criss crossing path with various kinds of enterprises
3. the sight of people attract still other people.
people generally are love watching activity and other people.
benches along the street :
a) watch the business in sidewalk
b) pedestrian crossing
c) traffic congestion
d) from bad weather
a lively street should consist of users and pure watcher
example: upper fifth avenue in New York / resident park avenue
monotonous sidewalk – x
putative user are populating
the value of bright street light for dispirited gray area rises from the reassurance they offer to some people who need to go out on the sidewalk
the building of BLENHEIM HOUSE are sixteen stories high, and because their height permits generous expanses of shunned area , surveillance of open corridors from the ground or from other buildings offers little more than psychological effect, but this psychological openness to view does appear effective to some degree. the corridor were designed to induce surveillance from within the building themselves. uses other plan circulation were built into them. they were equipped as play space , and made enough generous to acts as narrow porches as well as passageways.
how do we live with this insecurity?
three mode of living :
1. to let danger hold sway, and let those unfortunate enough to be struck with it take the consequences.
2. to take refuge in vehicles. exp: In log angeles.
3. to cultivate the institution of Turf eg: Hyde park kenwood

( to be continue)