Jane Jacobs - Development Quotes

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It's only with development and trade that poverty is overcome. The most rural places, without cities to act as their economic motors, are the poorest.

Jane Jacobs

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

Jane Jacobs

Cities are the mothers of economic development, not because people are smarter in cities, but because of the conditions of density. There is a concentration of need in cities, and a greater incentive to address problems in ways that haven't been addressed before. This is the essence of economic development. Without it, we'd all be poor.

Jane Jacobs

The bureaucratized, simplified cities, so dear to present-day city planners and urban designers … run counter to the processes of city growth and economic development.

Jane Jacobs

Poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Jane Jacobs