Summation Chapter 7 and 8

In chapters 7 and 8 Jacobs will discuss diversity within communities. She explains that ''Diversity is natural to big cities." When she discusses the ineffective "tactics" that city planners undertake and how they categorize everything in a city as far as its purpose is concerned she compares it to "the picture assembled by the blind men who felt the elephant and pooled their findings together." I liked very much this analysis, it describes perfectly how city planners really are the blind men because they try to rationalize everything and classify people. With diversity comes the need for flexibility in city planning. Jacobs explains how this breeds the need for different types and styles of structures the integration of the old and new that goes hand in hand with an ever changing city. The growth of people and diversity requires for a city to have a diverse way to accomodate these people as well.