Abandoned buildings Quote by Jane Jacobs Download Open image “New ideas must use old buildings” — Jane Jacobs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abandoned buildings Building Ideas Inspirational New ideas Old buildings Use
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. — Anonymous 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
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time — Gottfried Bohm Copy Share Image
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously.… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. — John Pawson Copy Share Image
In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole… — Thom Mayne 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
“Abandoned buildings are like abandoned people. They grow bitter and start to keep bad company.” — Louise Welsh Copy Share Image
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost… — Keegan Allen Copy Share Image
“One day or another, it is true, dust, supposing it persists, will probably begin to gain the upper hand over domestics, invading the immense… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“I am not against playfully imagining possible decivilized worlds. But for such imaginings to be truly playful and to have experimental potential, they cannot… — Wolfi Landstreicher Copy Share Image
I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“You’d think bad guys would get a little creative,” Razor whispered as we crawled under the fence. “Old, abandoned buildings are such a cliché.” — Ada Adams Copy Share Image
“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened only in… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
