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 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
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — 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
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
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other. — 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
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
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
Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
