"By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise……" — Jane Jacobs

"By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange."

— Jane Jacobs

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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for…
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would…
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not…
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has…
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of…
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On…
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse,…
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at…
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and…
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex…

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as… — Mary Kay Ash
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe

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