Jane Jacobs Quotes (9 Quotes)


    But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

    Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

    You can't rely on bringing people downtown you have to put them there, ... The Death and Life of Great American Cities.


    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.



    The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.

    The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

    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.


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