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Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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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…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human…
— A.C. Grayling
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It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held…
— Wilma Rudolph
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets.…
— Sid Luckman
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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing…
— Berenice Abbott
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I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the…
— Chris Kattan
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We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city…
— Camille Paglia
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This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt…
— Jane Jacobs
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It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see…
— Mike Royko
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Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up…
— Malcolm Forbes
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The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but…
— Reynolds Price
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