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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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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
— Edward Abbey
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill
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I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same…
— Zaha Hadid
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A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure.…
— Richard Carlson
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Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that…
— Francis Cornford
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the…
— Bill Vaughan
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Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and…
— Unknown Author
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A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
— Daniel Burnham
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
— Socrates
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If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?
— William J. Brennan
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Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
— Winston Churchill
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