Architecture Quote by Jane Jacobs

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

— Harvey Milk

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of…

— Harvey Milk

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

— Edwin Markham

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

— Caetano Veloso

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were…

— Jane Jacobs

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man.…

— Edwin Markham

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must…

— Jane Jacobs

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

— Alan Autry

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

— Mick Cornett

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

— Daniel Libeskind

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

— Frank Gehry