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