City Quotes by Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

— Jane Jacobs

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

— Jane Jacobs

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

— Jane Jacobs

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

— Jane Jacobs

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

— Jane Jacobs

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new…

— Jane Jacobs

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…

— Jane Jacobs

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

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

— Jane Jacobs

...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

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…

— Jane Jacobs

“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.”

— Jane Jacobs

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

“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose,…

— Jane Jacobs

“Cities are not ordained; they are wholly existential. To say that a city grew “because” it was located at a good site…

— Jane Jacobs

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)…

— Jane Jacobs

“What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle…

— Jane Jacobs

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…

— Jane Jacobs

“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

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…

— Jane Jacobs

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

“Is it not possible for the economy of a city to be highly efficient, and for the city also to excel at…

— Jane Jacobs

“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

That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible.…

— Jane Jacobs

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with…

— Jane Jacobs

I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not…

— Jane Jacobs