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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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Speech is the small change of silence.
— George Meredith
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Words are the small change of thought.
— Jules Renard
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
— Lord Byron
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
— Victor Hugo
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As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus…
— Glenn Turner
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Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must…
— Jane Jacobs
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Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you…
— Rose Byrne
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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
— Jonathan Ive
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Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in…
— Andrew Greeley
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I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.
— Melissa Etheridge
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general…
— Charles Dickens
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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