This reminds me of a story I heard on Diane Rheim a week or so ago. Diane told of being a young girl walking home from school past a neighbor's house where beautiful tulips were blooming right next to the sidewalk. She picked one to bring home to her mother. But the moment she got home she was faced with an angry mother who made her march back to the neighbor and apologize for picking a flower that didn't belong to her. Turns out the neighbor saw Diane pick the flower, then called Diane's mother and tattled on her!
A lesson in right and wrong for a young girl and a story that we architects would probably say confirms the validity of Jane Jacob's "eyes on the street" phenomenon - and something we designers are supposed to support and make possible though our urban design work.
So is beaming CCTV into people's private homes all that different?
May 15, 06 1:20 pm ·
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This reminds me of a story I heard on Diane Rheim a week or so ago. Diane told of being a young girl walking home from school past a neighbor's house where beautiful tulips were blooming right next to the sidewalk. She picked one to bring home to her mother. But the moment she got home she was faced with an angry mother who made her march back to the neighbor and apologize for picking a flower that didn't belong to her. Turns out the neighbor saw Diane pick the flower, then called Diane's mother and tattled on her!
A lesson in right and wrong for a young girl and a story that we architects would probably say confirms the validity of Jane Jacob's "eyes on the street" phenomenon - and something we designers are supposed to support and make possible though our urban design work.
So is beaming CCTV into people's private homes all that different?
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