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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and… — Jane Jacobs
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of… — Jane Jacobs
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… — Jane Jacobs
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe. — Jane Jacobs
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles? — Jane Jacobs
This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other. — Jane Jacobs
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. — Jane Jacobs
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine… — Leon Krier
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. — Leon Krier
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. — Leon Krier
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. — Leon Krier
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
In a Society becoming steadily more privatized with private homes, cars, computers, offices and shopping centers, the public component of our lives is disappearing. It… — Jan Gehl
A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves, — Jan Gehl
An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city. — Jan Gehl
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall… — Henry George
I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. — Edward Bellamy
Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of… — Aravind Adiga
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of… — Antonin Scalia

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