Quotes by : Jane Jacobs

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable....

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes....

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter....

Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes.....

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to....

Design is people.

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did....