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Cities Quotes by Jane Jacobs
- Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount…
- There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit…
- Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive…
- I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed,…
- Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds…
- Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon.…
- In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?
- This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
- 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.
- The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of…
- Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must grow.
- Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
- The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each…
- Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.
- In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the city everyone does not-only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one…
More Cities Quotes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — David Barford
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman