--- title: "4 Diverse Quotes By Jane Jacobs" description: "4 Diverse quotes by Jane Jacobs. Plus more from Jane Jacobs and more Diverse sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/jane-jacobs-1991_cities_dull-inert-cities-it-is-true-do-contain_675956.png" --- > [Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/dull-inert-cities-it-is-true-do-contain-the-seeds-of-their-own/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/jane-jacobs-1991_cities_dull-inert-cities-it-is-true-do-contain_675956.png) > [You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/you-can-neither-lie-to-a-neighbourhood-park-nor-reason-with-it-artist/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/jane-jacobs-1991_appreciate_you-can-neither-lie-to-a-neighbourhood-p_1079399.jpg) > [I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/i-don-t-think-that-you-can-dispose-of-the-constructive-and-inventive/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad5/jane-jacobs-1991_america_i-don-t-think-that-you-can-dispose-of-th_1114048.png) > [I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/i-think-it-is-fatal-to-specialize-and-all-kinds-of-things-show-us/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d34/jane-jacobs-1991_all-kinds_i-think-it-is-fatal-to-specialize-and-al_2764290.png) ## Other authors on Diverse ## More by Jane Jacobs > [People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/people-who-try-to-predict-the-future-by-extrapolating-in-a-line-of/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/my-mother-used-to-say-when-we-were-children-when-a-boy-gets-a-stick/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Design is people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/design-is-people/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/to-approach-a-city-or-even-a-city-neighborhood-as-if-it-were-a-larger/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/cities-need-old-buildings-so-badly-it-is-probably-impossible-for/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/the-notion-that-you-could-discard-the-old-world-and-now-make-a-new/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/cities-are-an-immense-laboratory-of-trial-and-error-failure-and/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/development-isn-t-a-collection-of-things-but-rather-a-process-that/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/most-sentimental-ideas-imply-at-bottom-a-deep-if-unacknowledged/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/beneficent-spirals-operating-by-benign-feedback-mean-that-everything/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/automobiles-are-often-conveniently-tagged-as-the-villains-responsible/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/i-tis-hopeless-to-try-to-convert-some-borders-into-seams-expressways/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/probably-the-most-important-element-in-intricacy-is-centering-good/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/throughout-the-world-dark-ages-have-scrawled-finis-to-successions-of/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) > [“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/privacy-is-precious-in-cities-it-is-indispensable-perhaps-it-is/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diverse/jane-jacobs/#itemlist", "name": "4 Diverse Quotes By Jane Jacobs", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. 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