In the chapter “The uses of sidewalks: safety” in The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, the author writes about the purpose and important of streets besides carrying pedestrians. Jacobs writes, if someone says that a city “is dangerous or is a jungle, what they mean primarily is that they do not feel safe on the sidewalks.” What I think Jacobs meant by this is that the streets of a city determines how secure pedestrians or civilians in the city feels. Jacobs correlates safe cities with sidewalks that are usually populated. Meaning that more suburb cities, like New York or Los Angeles are more safer than cities that are more rural. The only way to make the streets safer is through the people who live in the cities. They need to be willing to protect each other and grow as a community. I kind of agree with what Jacobs is saying because if the people do not make an effort to make their city better, it will never become safe no matter how many police or cameras they put on the streets.
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