Nobody Is Safe!!!

This trend mentioned by Jane Jacobs in The Use of Sidewalks - Safety is that the more people use the streets and the more people that care about what is going on in the streets the safer they would be. However this trend shows that eventually no street will ever be a safe place as people care less and less about what is going on outside their window and more and more about what is going on inside. As Jacobs mentions "the sight of people attracts other people" and as people move out in favor of "safer places" less people will want to watch the outside and see what is going on which will make the streets a lonelier, more desolate, more dangerous place. This in turn will make more people want to leave causing it to become even more dangerous of a place to walk. It also seems that as areas are expanding there are smaller buildings and businesses being replaced by larger living facilities. The people that move into these buildings often replace the people that care about the streets and what is going on out there. This also makes the streets are more dangerous place and the rate that this is occurring is causing a rapid destabilization of the safety of these streets. As this occurs there will be less and less streets that can be safely walked on at night and the whole city will be engulfed in crime.
There seems to be many reasons why the streets become unsafe but once it starts it is like a domino effect and all hope is lost.

For the story of Woodruff Park and the Search for Common Ground, by Murphy Davis the reader is shown an example of how all the people in an area and are related and how an adjustment made to a public area to affect one group of people will ultimately affect everybody else. In this story Murphy talks about the changes to Woodruff Park to make it less hospitable to the homeless and downtrodden make it less hospitable to the general public. The city council has turned a beautiful park into an impersonal stretch of concrete, but on the bright side they could have made it into a parking lot. Oh wait, they already did that when they tore down living the Avon and Capital hotels. Atlanta, Georgia seems to have this obsession with keeping bums out of the parks, but at the same time they consider kicking people out of their homes by tearing down living residences such as hotels and low income housing an improvement to the city. Something there just doesn't add up but I can't quite put my finger on it.