Ballet Quote by Jane Jacobs

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

— Jane Jacobs

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

Design is people.

— Jane Jacobs

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

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

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

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

— Jane Jacobs

“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

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

— Jane Jacobs

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

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

“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