Cities Quote by 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 cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about…” quote by Jane Jacobs — Download Open image

“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 cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires. Empires want them only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.”

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The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

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I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

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