Cities Quote by Jane Jacobs

“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

“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…

— Geoffrey West

We are fortunate to live in an attractive, highly desirable and vibrant city. A city that is growing, that draws new residents and visitors…

— Ted Wheeler

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

— Thomas Menino

“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

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

— Gavin Newsom

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the…

— Stone Gossard

“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

“A city is judged by the beauty of the children's parks.”

— Amit Ray

“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

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

— David Byrne

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse energies are…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti