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Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity
Felder, Maxime
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Pignolo, Loïc
“Think of a city and what comes to mind?” asks Jane Jacobs (1961: 29). “Its streets. If a city’s streets look interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull.” In our opinion, Jacobs should have answered: its commercial streets. Indeed, on Jacobs’ ideal street, small shops attract a diversity of people who use the public space and interact
Type
book part or chapter
Authors
Felder, Maxime
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Pignolo, Loïc
Editors
Ferro, Lígia
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Smagacz-Poziemska, Marta
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Gómez, Victoria
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Kurtenbach, Sebastian
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Pereira, Patrícia
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Villalón, Juan José
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Published in
Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life
ISBN of the book
978-3-658-18461-2
Publisher place
Wiesbaden
Total of pages
97-114
Start page
97
End page
114
EPFL units
Available on Infoscience
April 9, 2019
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