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Jane Jacobs Quotes: This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
         

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.


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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.



Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.



Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.



There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.



Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.



While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.



The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.



This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.



People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.



Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.





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Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.

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Love is the gentle breeze that tingles in your heart when your mind floats into the abyss of unspoken words

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

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What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to.

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I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

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To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

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We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.

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Worry about him? I never even heard of him.

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