Quotes by : Jane Jacobs

The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in....

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered....

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

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere....

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

To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:1.....

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.

Design is people.

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you....