"(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in……" — Jane Jacobs
"(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)"
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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs
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- 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…
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