Downtown Quote by Jane Jacobs Download Open image “You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there.” — Jane Jacobs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Downtown People Rely
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
This is critical to the region. Every other major city has public transportation going downtown. We have a world-class airport now, and this could… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a… — Michael Ritchie Copy Share Image
How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people. — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
People come in because they like 'Old Town Road.' They'll find out that I'm just not going to stick to that. — Lil Nas X Copy Share Image
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns… — Genevieve Gorder 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 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… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
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 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… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
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 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… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share
“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
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown. — Tony Hatch Copy Share Image
Both of these places, Cairo's downtown and Tahrir Square, are in the heart of downtown Cairo. They are places where young people gather to… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I love downtown Seattle. It's a city that has all of the outdoor activities and is still a very cosmopolitan city. — Greg LeMond Copy Share Image
After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in… — Kel Mitchell Copy Share Image
My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward. — August Alsina Copy Share Image
L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share
