On June 4th, 2011, Hamilton Square will host the Urban Land Institute of New York for a discussion on real estate development as a community builder. Focusing on Hamilton Square and its transformation of the historic Hamilton Park neighborhood into a vibrant and walkable community, the event will feature Robert Cotter, Jersey City Director of …
Functional Diversity
A prominent theme in Jane Jacob’s Death and Life of Great American Cities, the unofficial bible of urban planning since it was published, is the idea of “functional diversity.” The various elements of a neighborhood should be diverse (as opposed to having a ‘residential district’ or an ‘industrial district’ or a ‘commercial district’), and each …