"Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?" — Jane Jacobs
"Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?"
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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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More Attrition Quotes
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Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you…
— Dax Shepard
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Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at…
— Unknown Author
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Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can…
— Kate Forsyth
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It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not…
— Julie Bowen
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The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.
— Yasser Arafat
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This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical…
— Osama bin Laden
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Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've…
— LaVell Edwards
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The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among…
— Bob Benson
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When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit,…
— Michael Arad
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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for…
— Christopher Hitchens
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