There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is… — 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
Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“There is a widespread belief that americans hate cities. I think it is probable that Americans hate city failure, but, from the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Ebenezer Howard’s vision of the Garden City would seem almost feudal to us. He seems to have thought that members of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core… — 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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