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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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People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…
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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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To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.
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I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or…
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You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life…
— Jane Jacobs
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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next…
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