"Neighborhood is a word that has come to……" — Jane Jacobs
"Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense."
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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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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over…
— Andrea Bocelli
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,…
— Jan C. Ting
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
— Harry Vardon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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