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> [It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-jacobs/it-may-be-that-we-have-become-so-feckless-as-a-people-that-we-no/)

[Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-jacobs/)

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## 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/)

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