People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there. — 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 Image
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place. — 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
I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have. — 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
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
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Americans have got it so dinged into them that they are the most fortunate people on Earth, and that the rest of… — 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
I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just… — 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
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet… — 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
Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — 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
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
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
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
it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons… — 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
Unfortunately [René] Lévesque had so little self confidence in Quebec and in the people themselves, that he fell for that and, yes,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of… — 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
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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