Single-family zoning and auto-oriented cities were never designed to benefit everyone, and exclusion was fundamental to their early success (affordable prices, low traffic). I think exclusionary systems like this are always embedded with the seeds of their own destruction.
Her reasoning, though, has a lot to do with there being enough eyeballs to deter criminal activity. And security cameras were somewhere between rare and nonexistent when she wrote the book, and are ubiquitous now.
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Oh yeah, some of it is now a little obsolete. eg. I lived in Stuytown in Manhatttan for a while (giant bland housing project), which she predicted would be a permanent crime disaster. She didn't account for property values getting so sky-high they'd hire a private security force.
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But even where her predictions missed a by a bit, the principles were still right. They needed that private security force, and it... is creepy.
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