Quotes by Jacobs, Jane

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse cent >>

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first >>

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only o >>

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of t >>

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane