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.

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

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East....

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