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Jane Jacobs Quotes


Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody only because and only when they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs Cities 147
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Jacobs Choice 108
Design is people. Jane Jacobs Design 82
To seek causes of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Jane Jacobs Prosperity 78
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. Jane Jacobs Order 71
By its nature the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling namely the strange. Jane Jacobs Cities 69
Design is people. Jane Jacobs design 54
Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Jane Jacobs Humanity 51
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth. Jane Jacobs Cling 51
Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles not by people in themselves. Jane Jacobs Cities 45
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate crossuse that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. Jane Jacobs Cities 42
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. Jane Jacobs Diversity 36
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that if they did not there would be no downtown to amount to anythingcertainly not one with much downtown diversity. Jane Jacobs Diversity 36
A borderthe perimeter of a single massive or stretchedout use of territoryforms the edge of an area of ordinary city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects or matteroffactly just as edges. However a border exerts an active influence. Jane Jacobs Cities 34
Dull inert cities it is true do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively diverse intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves. Jane Jacobs Cities 31
I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover even in the case of large parks campuses or waterfronts the barrier effects can likely be overcome well only along portions of perimeters. Jane Jacobs Cities 29
The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success. Jane Jacobs Planning 22

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