People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have. — 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
The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the… — 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
My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place. — 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
I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these… — 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
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
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