Summary of Chapter 3

In chapter 3 , the author talked about that the city planners always come up the idea to reform the city ; however, they don’t actually live in the city, they don’ t know the basic needs of neighbors are lacking safety in sidewalk and trust with other neighbors. Without the trustiness, people lived alone and don’t like to interfere other people’ privacy as their own, too. Without Sidewalk public contact and sidewalk public safety, it is easy to have the most serious social problem--segregation and racial discrimination. If neighbors don’t know each other which might lead to couldn’t help others when they get a trouble.

Furthermore, the author raised the example of “togetherness”. Even though the city reformers tried to build a place for neighbors to communicate and socialize with each other, it doesn’t work perfectly. The result just like that neighbors recognize their neighbors but without conversation. “Many adult don’t like to involve in any friendship relationship with their neighbors. If it is necessary to form of society, they only limit themselves to one or two friends and no more.” The author demonstrated that the importance of pubic life and connection between one neighbor and other one. She believed we should work on the sidewalk contact in order to reduce the problem about untrustiness.