"You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you……" — Jane Jacobs

"You can't rely on bringing people downtown, you have to put them there."

— Jane Jacobs

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57 Quotes by Jane Jacobs

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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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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of… — David Attenborough
The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid… — Antonio Banderas
It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a… — Tyra Banks
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in… — Benazir Bhutto
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. — Aeschylus
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it… — Earl Blumenauer
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how. — Barbara Boxer
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. — Alvin Ailey
I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and… — Gisele Bundchen
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing… — George W. Bush

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