More mixing, mixing it up, and mixed-use buildings, please! Some people up here get it, but "mixed use" has become a 4-letter word. Part of that is an aversion to apartments as a form of housing density, but part of it, I think, is just a general fear of change. It's a wild dissonance that laments a local bar/store/whatever closing while also loudly condemning any new businesses coming in to fill the void.
My first reaction was “of course”. The second was: “Glad Rocco reminded us.”
In Zurich, near where we used to live, mixing alone has not been enough to make late night mingling and strolling super safe everywhere.
Zurich specifically and Switzerland generally ha too much imported crime; many people who have nothing to lose by doing things which our culture abhors.
So design matters and so does good police work. More of what in NYC and I think later in LA was called the broke windows theory.
More mixing, mixing it up, and mixed-use buildings, please! Some people up here get it, but "mixed use" has become a 4-letter word. Part of that is an aversion to apartments as a form of housing density, but part of it, I think, is just a general fear of change. It's a wild dissonance that laments a local bar/store/whatever closing while also loudly condemning any new businesses coming in to fill the void.
My first reaction was “of course”. The second was: “Glad Rocco reminded us.”
In Zurich, near where we used to live, mixing alone has not been enough to make late night mingling and strolling super safe everywhere.
Zurich specifically and Switzerland generally ha too much imported crime; many people who have nothing to lose by doing things which our culture abhors.
So design matters and so does good police work. More of what in NYC and I think later in LA was called the broke windows theory.
Broken windows leaves a lot to be desired. This is a good place to start on that - https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-reclamation-of-skid-row Gary Blasi did a lot of great work on it at UCLA.