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Border Vacuums In The Death And Life Of Great American Cities
2 EFFECTS OF CREATION OF RESIDUAL SPACES
• These more or less unorganized activities can be deemed as appropriation in weak sense, use of spaces that leaves abundant traces, but never creates trust-worthy and defensible place holds.
Jane Jacobs in Chapter14, The curse of Border Vacuums in The death and Life of Great American Cities:
• The main concept put forth in this book is how large single use sites within the urban fabric create negative zone of borders, which break neighbourhoods and lead to division of the city into many fragments.
 Over the Past few years, radically changing economic, industrial, and employment pattern have further infuriated the problem of lost space in the urban scenery.
 This is majorly true with highways, railroads,

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