Quotes by Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

…frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

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Cities

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(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Determination

Neurotic

Planning

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[ René Lévesque] didn’t understand why things do collapse. It’s usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It’s not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.

Reason

Reason Why

West

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[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

Cities

Definitions

Way

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[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

Government

Missing

Would Be

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A border–the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory–forms the edge of an area of ‘ordinary’ city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

Cities

Matter

Territory

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

Found

Lasts

Problem

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Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn’t be relied on to guard henhouses.

Culture

Foxes

Past

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All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

Floating

Oil

Running

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All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

Cities

Ideas

People

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