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Return to your building age map and open the properties for the "Year Built" layer. Click the symbology tab and click the classify window.
Clicking on each Break Value will tell you how many buildings were built in each time period.
1) List the time periods on your map and how many buildings were built in each.
2) Is there a trend in building ages in Bushwick? When were the greatest number of buildings built, when were the least?
3) What does this trend tell you about the pace of change in Bushwick? What is going on now in Bushwick now?
4) Look at all the new buildings in Bushwick. What do you think was there before it was built?
Bonus Question: Use the selection tool (select by attributes) to figure out how many buildings were built in 2006 and 2007.
‘Eyes on the street’. Coined by the legendary urban sociologist, Jane Jacobs in her landmark book, Death and Life of Great American Cities, these are probably four of the most fundamental words when it comes to public safety.
The term is used by neighborhood watch programs across the country and familiar to law enforcement officials as well. In Jane’s words:
“There must be eyes on the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind. The sidewalk must have users on it fairly continuously, both to add to the number of effective eyes on the street and to induce a sufficient number of people in buildings along the street to watch the sidewalks.“
What are "eyes" on the street? How do you think they affect personal safety and a sense of community?
What kind of streets have more eyes on them? Which kind of streets have less?
What are some of the "eyes" on the street where you live? Do you have enough?
PArt 2: The USes of sidewalks summary document
What role does Jacobs see for sidewalks?
/Which of her ideas do you agree with? Which do you think are totally silly?
1. Which route was selected for the highway and why?
2. How many families would have been displaced by each proposed route?
3. Had the expressway been built, what do you think the impact would have been on Bushwick? Which route would have been the worst for Bushwick?
4. Why do you think the Bushwick expressway project was never completed?
5. Look at a map of New York City Highways; do you think that the Bushwick Expressway project should be revived?
