“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
That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers… — 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
