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Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs."

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination."

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.




Jane Jacobs Quotes: "There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans."

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order."

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.




Jane Jacobs Quotes: "While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see."

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations."

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe."

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.




Jane Jacobs Quotes: "People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other."

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other."

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow."

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas."

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design."

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.




Jane Jacobs Quotes: "The point of cities is multiplicity of choice."

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "There is no new world that you make without the old world."

There is no new world that you make without the old world.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution."

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.



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

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



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities."

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture."

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "New ideas must use old buildings"

New ideas must use old buildings



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers."

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood."

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate."

Never underestimate the power of a city to regenerate.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so."

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity."

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end."

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education."

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities."

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances."

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder."

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?"

Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities."

The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation."

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things."

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory."

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance."

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange."

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Redundancy is expensive but indispensable."

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves."

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves."

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes."

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "New ideas often need old buildings."

New ideas often need old buildings.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically."

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "City diversity represents accident and chaos."

City diversity represents accident and chaos.



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

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?"

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial."

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get."

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.



Jane Jacobs Quotes: "It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams."

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.