--- title: "4 Neighborhood Quotes By Jane Jacobs" description: "4 Neighborhood quotes by Jane Jacobs. Plus more from Jane Jacobs and more Neighborhood sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/jane-jacobs-1991_approach_to-approach-a-city-or-even-a-city-neighb_57455.png" --- > [To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/jane-jacobs-1991_approach_to-approach-a-city-or-even-a-city-neighb_57455.png) > [Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/neighborhood-is-a-word-that-has-come-to-sound-like-a-valentine-as-a/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f0/jane-jacobs-1991_cities_neighborhood-is-a-word-that-has-come-to_782102.png) > [ Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...\[Residents\] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/neighborhoods-built-up-all-at-once-change-little-physically-over-the/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a80/jane-jacobs-1991_birth_neighborhoods-built-up-all-at-once-chang_1619302.png) > [The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/the-more-successfully-a-city-mingles-everyday-diversity-of-uses-and/) [Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/jane-jacobs-1991_cities_the-more-successfully-a-city-mingles-eve_2575472.png) ## Other authors on Neighborhood - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rodney-dangerfield-80610.jpg) Rodney Dangerfield 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/rodney-dangerfield/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wendell-berry-94730.jpg) Wendell Berry 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/wendell-berry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-fred-rogers-36077.jpg) Fred Rogers 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/fred-rogers/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-malcolm-x-62876.jpg) Malcolm X 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/malcolm-x/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-carlin-37578.jpg) George Carlin 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/george-carlin/) - [Sharon Zukin 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/sharon-zukin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jane-byrne-47075.jpg) Jane Byrne 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/jane-byrne/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-ice-cube-43040.jpg) Ice Cube 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/ice-cube/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neighborhood/george-w-bush/) ## 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/neighborhood/jane-jacobs/#itemlist", "name": "4 Neighborhood Quotes By Jane Jacobs", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. 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