Ch.15

This chapter is about unsluming and slumming. Jane Jacob describes “slum operates as vicious circles.” she said that the urban renewal laws are not working. It tries to replace the slum by other projects and move slums to other places. This cannot improve the situation of slum. She explains the disadvantage of the law in this chapter. She mentions that taking out the slum is not the method. The effective development of slum is the solution. People leave too fast in slum. When the old slum move, the new slum would come here and inherit the “cycle”. If People who lived in slum desire to stay there, this would improve the environment of slum. First, it decreases the unstable in population and it holds enough population in the place. Second, the resident and businessmen can make their own plan for their place. Then, the result is that place becomes unslum gradually. It just sees how resident of slum behave. I agree with her opinion because I think slum is necessary to a city. In a city, different level of people occurs is natural. You can not compel to eliminate a part of a city. I think Jane Jacob’s method is good enough.