"Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain……" — Jane Jacobs
"Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves."
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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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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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