Mixed uses
Homes, shops, work, and worship side by side — keeping the streets busy at different hours.
Beyond Design · Urban Research
What If Jane Jacobs Visited Eilaboun Today?
A small, quantitative research study: I take Jane Jacobs — the writer who read cities through their everyday street life — and imagine her walking through Eilaboun, my village in the Galilee.
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The Idea
I chose to study a place through quantitative research — observing and measuring how it actually lives. And I chose Jane Jacobs as my lens, because she believed a place is understood not from a master plan, but from its sidewalks and small daily encounters. So I brought her thinking home, to Eilaboun.
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Her Lens — “Eyes on the Street”
Jacobs taught us that a healthy place keeps eyes on the street — neighbors, shopfronts, and everyday presence that quietly keep public life alive.
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What I Examine in Eilaboun
Short blocks
Short, connected streets and many small paths that invite walking and turning.
Aged buildings
Older buildings standing alongside newer ones — the variety Jacobs saw as vital to a living place.
Density & street life
Enough people, coming and going, to keep public life — and eyes on the street — alive.
What would Jane Jacobs see in Eilaboun's streets today?
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And an Emotional Map
Coming soonThe study closes with an emotional map of the village — a day in Eilaboun read through feeling, not just distance. It will be revealed here once it's ready.