All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new… — 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
People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for… — 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
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
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
“Working places and commerce must be mingled right in with residences if men, like the men who work on or near Hudson… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The desirability of segregating dwellings from work has been so dinned into us that it takes an effort to look at real… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of… — 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
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
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
“Adding and Dividing Work Ancient people seem to have understood perfectly well that economic life is a matter of adding new goods… — 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
Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are… — 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
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — 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
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
