"Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains……" — 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 destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building."
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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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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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New ideas must use old buildings
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More Automobile Quotes
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one of 243 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
— Erma Bombeck
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I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
— Ray Bradbury
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more…
— Art Buchwald
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big…
— Bill Bryson
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world,…
— Vince Cable
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a…
— Walter Chrysler
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
— Albert Einstein
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I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step…
— Booth Tarkington
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