jacobs coordination law

principal coordination needed comes down to coord among diff services w/in localized places. this is at once the most difficult kind of coordination, and the most necessary – jane jacobs

until now.. now we have means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs.. rather than any services we already have/perpetuate/assume-we-need

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from jane jacobs‘ death and life of cities:

p. 412 – naturally, problems which nearly everyone wants to solve, and which are capable of solution, are out of everyone’s comprehension and control.

p. 416 – (planning commission) – the invention was a poor one for the reason that it duplicated and i some ways reinforced, the very flaws it was intended to overcome.

p. 417 – it cannot be helped as things are. their staffs do not and cannot know enough about places within cities to do anything else, try as they might. [..] …an partly because of the same structural inadequacies in other departments.

here is an interesting thing about coordination both of information and of action in cities, and it is the crux of the matter: the principal coordination needed comes down to coordination among different services within localized places. this is at once the most difficult kind of coordination, and the most necessary.

app ness

until now.. now we have means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs.. rather than any services we already have/perpetuate/assume-we-need

p. 418 – the invention required is not a device for coordination at the generalized top, but rather and invention to make coordination possible where the need is most acute – in specific and unique localities.

ie: 7 billion, 24/7, ness