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One 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…
- A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
- 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.
- 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…
- [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…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle