"Cities have the capability of providing something for……" — Jane Jacobs
"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."
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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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My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was…
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit…
— Alvar Aalto
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I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want…
— Sandra Bullock
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of…
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in…
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
— David Amram
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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