Jane Jacobs

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

— Jane Jacobs

“[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with…

— Jane Jacobs

“A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as…

— Jane Jacobs

Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so…

— Jane Jacobs

Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are…

— Jane Jacobs

What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder…

— Jane Jacobs

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples…

— Jane Jacobs

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers…

— Jane Jacobs

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…

— Jane Jacobs

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is…

— Jane Jacobs

“His aim was the creation of self sufficient small towns,really very nice towns if you were docile and had no plans of…

— Jane Jacobs

The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But…

— Jane Jacobs

Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's…

— Jane Jacobs

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)…

— Jane Jacobs

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

We've got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have…

— Jane Jacobs

We expect too much of new # buildings , and too little of ourselves.

— Jane Jacobs

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…

— Jane Jacobs

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful -…

— Jane Jacobs

“Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted…

— Jane Jacobs

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality…

— Jane Jacobs

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

— Jane Jacobs

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

— Jane Jacobs

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are…

— Jane Jacobs

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…

— Jane Jacobs