"City diversity represents accident and chaos." — Jane Jacobs
"City diversity represents accident and chaos."
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Jane Jacobs
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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…
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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 Accident Quotes
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
— Bono
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
— Kim Alexis
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