Attrition Quote by Jane Jacobs Download Open image “Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?” — Jane Jacobs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attrition Automobile Cities Erosion
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 Copy Share Image
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time. — Bertrand Delanoe Copy Share Image
The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“While industry and cars cause pollution, removing trees exacerbates the problem.” — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Development isn't a collection of things but rather a process that yields things. Not knowing this, governments, their development and aid agencies, the World… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials. — Tom Sharpe Copy Share Image
The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment. — Dave McClure Copy Share Image
Employing more women at all levels of a company, from new hires to senior leaders, creates a virtuous cycle. Companies become more attuned to… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws. — Allen West Copy Share Image
Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“You might say that S. has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition. — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
