Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old… — 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
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if… — 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
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
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful -… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be… — 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
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
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
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
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
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“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
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
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
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
“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
“Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“Privacy is precious in cities. It is indispensable. Perhaps it is precious and indispensable everywhere, but in most places you cannot get it. In… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
![“The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all…” quote by Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e2/jane-jacobs-1991_architect_the-notion-and-i-tell-you-this-one-even_2115717.png)
