“This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.”
Jane Jacobs

The scenery above reminded me so much of Jane Jacobs’s concept of ‘Eyes on the street’. Jacobs argued that streets are safer when more people are on them and/or being watched by residents from their windows. She introduced this principle for a liveable and secure neighbourhood in her great publication ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York 1961)’. Her phenomenology of urban sace was an important influence on the so-called ‘New Urbanism’ movement and is still widely received.