Real world Quote by Jane Jacobs

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with each other…

— Jane Jacobs

Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

— Jane Jacobs

“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.…

— Laurence C. Smith

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash…

— Herb Caen

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“the concept of the city is significant in this period because the cities were considered to have developed for the gods.”

— Tammi J. Schneider

It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really…

— Eduardo Paes

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

The value of real estate to a city is huge. A community that is invested in making deep roots in an area creates a…

— Hilary Farr

In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger…

— Jane Jacobs

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson