To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence.… — 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
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities,… — 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
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
Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
There are two ways you encounter things in the world that are different. One is everything that comes in reinforces what you… — 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
Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I… — 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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