The bible of urban planning.
More Quotes from Jane Jacobs:
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
The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.
Jane Jacobs
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs
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
The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
Jane Jacobs
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Planning QuotesThe real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames
I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work.
Nia Long
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
Ben Nicholson