Jane Jacobs - Planning Quotes

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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

Jane Jacobs

Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

Jane Jacobs

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

Jane Jacobs

Architecture and site planning have changed since I wrote my first book. But it's because what they were doing so obviously didn't work. And yet, you still find the same kind of stupid mega-projects being pushed, and we still have politicians who aren't interested unless it's something big and ostentatious.

Jane Jacobs