Cities Quote by 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

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

Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality…

— Thomas Frank

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

— Jane Jacobs

Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane…

— John Ruskin

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

— Jane Jacobs

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the…

— Jane Jacobs

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of…

— Jane Jacobs

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting…

— Jane Jacobs

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

— Simon Pegg

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

— Herb Caen

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee