"New ideas often need old buildings." — Jane Jacobs

"New ideas often need old buildings."

57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for…
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would…
There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not…
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has…
Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of…
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On…
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse,…
Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at…
In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and…
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex…

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the… — Aristophanes
I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know… — Dan Aykroyd
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that… — Mahmoud Abbas
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. — Dave Barry
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very… — Cecilia Bartoli
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a… — Pope Benedict XVI
The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show… — Justin Bieber
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if… — Juliette Binoche
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.… — Michael Bloomberg
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the… — Michael Bloomberg
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we… — Nellie Bly

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