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
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
“Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — 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
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
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — 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
“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.” — 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
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
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
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
