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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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India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
— Pratibha Patil
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Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep…
— Lincoln Chafee
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I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the…
— Kajol
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The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no…
— Jane Jacobs
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I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
— Eric Heiden
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Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close…
— Clifford Stoll
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my…
— Bill Berry
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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
— Paul Getty
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Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.'…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.”…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean…
— Russell Brand
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As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
— Dean Smith
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