Urban planning Quote by Jane Jacobs

“the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so…

— Jane Jacobs

“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a…

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

“Intricacy is related to the variety of reasons for which people come to neighborhood parks. Even the same person comes for different reasons at…

— Jane Jacobs

Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.

— Roy Cooper

“If the park can be reduced to a single cultural indicator, it is that of optimism. Contained within the evolution of the park idea…

— Karen R. Jones & John Wills

“Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make…

— Gurcharan Das

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.

— Andrew Jackson Downing

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in…

— John Hench

The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at…

— George B. Hartzog Jr

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people…

— Jane Jacobs