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City 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- City diversity represents accident and chaos.
- The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby…
- Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to…
- ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.
More City Quotes
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that… — David Bailey
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would… — Alec Baldwin
- What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be… — Christian Bale
- I would love to do a television show in New York City. — Ellen Barkin
- I love New York City; I've got a gun. — Charles Barkley