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From Quotes by Jane Jacobs
- Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,…
- 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.
- 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…
- But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed…
- Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
- [Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by…
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