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Jane Jacobs

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


— Jane Jacobs


#death

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.


— Jane Jacobs


#death

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.


— Jane Jacobs


#death

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.


— Jane Jacobs


#death

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)


— Jane Jacobs


#death

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


— Jane Jacobs


#prosperity #poverty

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.


— Jane Jacobs


#death

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.


— Jane Jacobs


#change

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.


— Jane Jacobs


#traffic #urban-planning #death

Neue Ideen brauchen alte Gebäude


— Jane Jacobs


#architecture






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PubliJane Jacobsd in 1980 and reprinted in 2011 with a previously unpubliJane Jacobsd 2005 interview on the subject Jacobs' book advances the view that Quebec's eventual independence is best for Montreal Toronto the rest of Canada and the world; and that such independence can be achieved peacefully. She calls these two patterns "Moral Syndrome A" or commercial moral syndrome and "Moral Syndrome B" or guardian moral syndrome. C.

She has been accused of inattention to racial inequality and her concept of "unslumming" has been compared with gentrification. As a female writer and mother who criticized experts in the male-dominated field of urban planning Jacobs endured scorn from establiJane Jacobsd figures who called her a "housewife" and a "crazy dame". Her influential book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that urban renewal did not respect the needs of most city-dwellers.

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