Jane Jacobs Short Quotes

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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

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In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

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

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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

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

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Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

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

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Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities.

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

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Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

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I did have an inkling that I was going to be a writer. That was my intention.

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I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

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

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

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Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

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

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

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People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

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

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

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People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

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

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The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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

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Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada.

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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

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