Creatures Quote by Jane Jacobs

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

— Michael Tubbs

“most city diversity is the creation of incredible numbers of different people and different private organizations, with vastly differing ideas and purposes, planning and…

— Jane Jacobs

All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.

— Jim Norton

“These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr

“A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because…

— Jane Jacobs

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

— Steven Biko

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint…

— David Byrne

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

— Thabo Mbeki

When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suits.…

— M.I.A

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them.…

— Desmond Tutu

City diversity represents accident and chaos.

— Jane Jacobs