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Famous Jane Jacobs Quotes
“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“We expect too much of new # buildings , and too little of ourselves.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.”
Source: Dark Age Ahead
“Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.”
Source: Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
“While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities