"Redundancy is expensive but indispensable." — Jane Jacobs

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. - Jane Jacobs

"Redundancy is expensive but indispensable."

— Jane Jacobs

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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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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's… — David Bailey
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China,… — Antonio Banderas
I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save. — Tyra Banks
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. — Arthur Bloch
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the… — Michael Bloomberg
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. — Derek Bok
The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a… — Josh Brolin
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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