No Barriers Between Us

According to Jane Jacobs barriers are actually a negative thing in societies. In general fences are put up between neighbors in suburbs or cities in order to prevent people from breaking and entering via backyards as well as to prevent prying eyes from snooping on us all the time. In other words the fences are also for privacy. Yet Jane Jacobs finds these barriers to be negative because not only do the fences keep out burglars and nosy neighbors it also keeps out diversity as well. In fact it has been proven that fences actually aren't ideal protection. Buildings can be broken into because the fence actually makes them seem less secluded not to mention that with more people wandering around pedestrian traffic is increased-quite possibly also increasing the amount of crime.

In fact public housing projects have been discovered to be high crime areas due to eyes being on the streets rather than on the houses themselves Also there is no separation of commercial and residential buildings which make the buildings even more vulnerable if a burglary were to be commited. So fences apparently draw more attention to crimminals rather than preventing them from breaking in. Without fences, privacy may be reduced, but diversity would be able to increase. Perhaps also neighbors could become closer friends due to there being no boundaries in sight-as is normally the case with true friendship.
Here's a link to an example of the downsides of a fence.http://media.www.trinitytripod.com/media/storage/paper520/news/2006/01/31/Opinions/Fence.Creates.Ugly.Border-1546026-page2.shtml