"This is what a city is, bits and……" — Jane Jacobs
"This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other."
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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 Bits Quotes
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I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent…
— Emily Blunt
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Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD,…
— Jo Brand
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As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks.…
— Eric Clapton
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Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.
— Jim Gaffigan
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
— Mary Antin
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We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need…
— Unknown Author
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By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight,…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it…
— William James
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It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.
— Lou Gerstner
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My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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