Jane Jacobs quotes - page 2

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. (Jane Jacobs)
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
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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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There is no new world that you make without the old world.
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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.
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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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Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
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People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
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Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
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Design is people. (Jane Jacobs)
I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses.
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I do not agree with the extremists of either the left or the right, but I think they should be allowed to speak and to publish, both because they themselves have, and ought to have, rights, and once their rights are gone, the rights of the rest of us are hardly safe. Extremists typically want to squash not only those who disagree with them diametrically, but those who disagree with them at all.
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This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.
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But in North America we live in a graveyard of lost aboriginal cultures, many of which were decisively finished off by mass amnesia in which even the memory of what was lost was also lost.
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I had put a nickel in and just invested something.
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I would spend a nickel on the subway and go arbitrarily to some other stop and look around there.
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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City diversity represents accident and chaos.
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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)
New ideas must use old buildings.
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By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
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Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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