Jane Jacobs, in “The uses of sidewalks: safety” writes about the safety of populated streets and how it can create a safer environment for the city’s civilians. She writes how the most important thing to keep a city’s streets safe for its people is to have a community effort to protect each other, to keep watch of each other. She also refers to this as “eyes on the street”. Lauren Elkin, in”Long Island” writes about her transition from a suburb to the city in New York. She prefers the city because she feels safer, providing evidence for Jacobs’ claim. She also includes how everything is so accessible compared to the suburb where she is from. Although she prefers to live in the city, she reminiscences her time living in Long Island and the stores and the place she was raised in.
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