"A region is an area safely larger than……" — Jane Jacobs
"A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution."
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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site.
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for…
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse,…
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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex…
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More Area Quotes
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really…
— Eric Bana
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I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I…
— Tyra Banks
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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a…
— Jo Bonner
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I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called…
— Ruben Blades
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A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing…
— Rod Blagojevich
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing…
— Sarah Brightman
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I love the gray area between right and wrong.
— Dan Brown
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Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
— Kobe Bryant
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At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there.…
— Kobe Bryant
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