Cities Quote by Jane Jacobs Download Open image “Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.” — Jane Jacobs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Organs Sidewalk Streets
The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The usual mixture of rooms and squares and streets that is the mark of the Land of the Dead. Streets lead into kitchens and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities. — Allan Jacobs Copy Share Image
People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate… — Frances Wright 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
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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