Adversity Quote by Jane Jacobs

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they…

— Jane Jacobs

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

— Charlie Brooker

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas…

— Rem Koolhaas

“Expanding urbanization often trapped people at the margins of settlements into becoming landless and unable to use their skills and thus gradually forced them…

— Romila Thapar

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among…

— Sharon Zukin

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”

— John A. Hostetler

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

— Aaron Rose

“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because…

— Tabish Khair

Civilization has taught man how to live in dense crowds, and by that very fact those crowds are likely ultimately to constitute a majority…

— Charles Galton Darwin

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say…

— Eric Bogosian

“Even for a well-to-do city family, making life comfortable is a problem. But arriving at a point where comfort becomes a problem for a…

— Joseph Gies

“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable: 1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal…

— Jane Jacobs