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Use Quotes by Jane Jacobs
- I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed,…
- Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of…
- New ideas must use old buildings
- 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…
- You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood…
- ...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.
- Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
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- Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond. — Frederick Lenz
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to… — Alan Cohen
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell