Change Quote by Jane Jacobs

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

— Jane Jacobs

“It is possible in a city street neighborhood to know all kinds of people without unwelcome entanglements, without boredom, necessity for excuses, explanations, fears…

— Jane Jacobs

“A city street equipped to handle strangers, and to make a safety asset, in itself, our of the presence of strangers, as the streets…

— Jane Jacobs

“Out in this profane city, sometimes sidewalks seem the only cement that connects us, pressed by the sacred strangers we will never touch.”

— B.J. Ward

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs

“All socioeconomic activity in cities involves the interaction between people. Employment, wealth creation, innovation and ideas, the spread of infectious diseases, health care, crime,…

— Geoffrey West

“But I can stop on any corner at the intersection of two busy streets, and before me are thousands of lives headed in all…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Writing often in the pages of the New York Times, Allison Arieff is a powerful spokesperson. “Bring back the sidewalk!” she urged in one…

— Bella DePaulo

How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small…

— Jerry A. Webman

“The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk.”

— Robin Sloan

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns…

— Genevieve Gorder