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
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
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — 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
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
“What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle… — 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
“Cities are not ordained; they are wholly existential. To say that a city grew “because” it was located at a good site… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose,… — 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
I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not… — 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
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
“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable: 1. The district, and indeed as many of… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Is it not possible for the economy of a city to be highly efficient, and for the city also to excel at… — 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
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
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these… — 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
“A city park in this fix, afflicted (for in such cases it is an affliction) with a good-sized terrain, is figuratively in… — 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
