Jane Jacobs Quotes

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--bec...

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no ...

Design is people.

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those yo...

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marv...

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to...

Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsew...

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East...

To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:...

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and thes...

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

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capab...

No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they ...

The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors ...

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered...