Jane Jacobs Quotes

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

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. - Jane Jacobs

The bible of urban planning. - 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

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. - Jane Jacobs

Design is people. - Jane Jacobs

City diversity represents accident and chaos. - Jane Jacobs

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