Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It is possible in a city street neighborhood to know all kinds of people without unwelcome entanglements, without boredom, necessity for excuses,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“Development isn't a collection of things but rather a process that yields things. Not knowing this, governments, their development and aid agencies, the World… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it. In… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
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