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“Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.” quote by Jane Jacobs — Download Open image

“Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.”

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People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

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My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a…

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Design is people.

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To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting…

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Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can…

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The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

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“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 Bank, and much of the public put faith in a fallacious 'Thing Theory' of development. The Thing Theory supposes that development is the result of possessing things such as factories, dams, schools, tractors, whatever- often bunches…

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“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”

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Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the…

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“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large…

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Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.

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