Choice Quote by Jane Jacobs

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

— Jane Jacobs

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.

— 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

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

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

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the…

— Conor Oberst

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

— Wallace Stevens

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…

— Blake Bailey

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

— Simon Pegg

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

— Herb Caen

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee