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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of…
— James Buchan
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In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.
— Edward Glaeser
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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering…
— Henry George
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Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its…
— Godfried Danneels
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