"[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They……" — Jane Jacobs

"[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers."

— Jane Jacobs

57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs

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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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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork

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