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Streets Quotes by Jane Jacobs
- This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
- Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
- The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby…
- ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.
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