Quotes of Jane Jacobs - somelinesforyou

“ The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ”

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

“ In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- 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

“ Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people. ”

- 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

“ 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… ”

- 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

“ Design is people. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ Design is people. ”

- Jane Jacobs

“ 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… ”

- Jane Jacobs

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

- Jane Jacobs

“ The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. ”

- Jane Jacobs
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