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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.


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

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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.



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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.



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



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.



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.





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